Tas. 6696. 
CEPHASLIS tomentosa. 
Native of Guiana. 
Nat. Ord. Rusracrz.—Tribe PsycHoTrRiEZx. 
Genus CepHztis, Swartz; (Benth. et Hook.f. Gen, Pl. vol. ii. p. 127.) 
CrepH2xuis (Bracteocardis) tomentosa ; hirsuta, foliis breviter petiolatis ellipticis 
v. elliptico-lanceolatis utrinque acuminatis, nervis numerosis, stipulis utrinque 
2-nis elongato-lanceolatis erectis, capitulis longe pedunculatis, pedunculis 
axillaribus v. terminalibus 1-cephalis, involucri bracteis 2 magnis late ovatis 
subacutis v. cordato-reniformibus coccineis hirsutis, bracteolis spathulatis v. 
oblongis hirsutis, calycis lobis brevibus, corolla tubulosa flava limbo brevissimo 
5-dentato, dentibus triangularibus patulis, antheris linearibus subsessilibus 
dorsifixis. 
C. tomentosa, Willd. Sp. Pl. vol. i. p. 977; Vahl Eelog. vol. i. p. 19; DOC. 
Prodr, vol. iv. p. 533. 
Catticocca tomentosa, Gmel. Syst. vol. i. p. 371. 
Tapocomea tomentosa, Aubl. Guian. vol. i. p. 160, t. 61. 
A very singular plant, congeneric with that yielding the 
medicinal Ipecacuanha, but of very different appearance, a 
native of tropical America, whence it extends from Mexico 
to Guiana on the east, and Peru on the west side of the 
Andes; also found in Trinidad, but in no other of the 
West Indian Islands. It belongs to a small group of the 
genus (which is reduced to Psychotria by many authors), 
to which the sectional name of 7'apogomea has been applied 
by Mueller Argan in Martius’ Flora of Brazil (Fasc. lxxxiv.), 
distinguished chiefly by the bracts; it includes five species 
so strikingly alike that they may prove to be varieties of 
one; of these two have the calyx-lobes much longer than 
its tube, whilst in the other two the calyx-lobes are no 
longer than the tube. C. tomentosa is one of the last 
group, but differs from Mueller’s description in having 
tufts of hairs in the corolla-tube. 
C. tomentosa was introduced into cultivation by Messrs. 
Veitch, who imported it from British Guiana, and sent the 
JUNE Ist, 1883. 
