Tas. 4424 
LISIANTHUS putcurr. 
Beautiful Lisianthus. 
Nat, Ord. GenTIANE®.—PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Tas. 4324.) 
Listanruus pulcher; elatus erectus caule ramisque obtuse tetragonis, foliis 
petiolatis elliptico-lanceolatis acuminatis, nervis lateralibus paribus duobus, 
panicula terminali trichotoma, floribus pendulis, calyce brevi ovato brevi- 
5-lobo lobis obtusis, corolla (coccinese) infundibuliformis tubo basi angus- 
tato, limbo parum obliquo 5-lobo lobis ovatis obtusis patentibus, staminibus 
styloque exsertis, antheris apiculatis. 
Beautiful as are all the species of the genus Lisianthus, as 
that genus is now restricted by the learned Grisebach, the present, 
together with another scarlet-flowered one, Z. splendens, Hook. 
(Lond. Journ. Bot. vol. iv. p. 264. tab. 8) are, perhaps, the most 
beautiful ; and both these new species are among the discoveries 
of Mr. Purdie, during his botanical expedition to New Grenada. — 
L. pulcher was found in the Monte del Moro in October, 1845. 
It has flowered in the stove at the Royal Gardens of Kew, and 
more perfectly in the collection of Messrs, Lucombe andPince, 
Exeter Nursery, from whose fine plant our drawing was made 
mm September, 1848. 
Descr. A tall shrub, according to Mr. Purdie, five to seven 
feet high in its native country, with aap obtusely fou - 
angular dranches and leaves, which are also opposite, petiolate, 
ovato-lanceolate, four to five inches long, acuminate, obtuse at 
the base, penninerved ; nerves in two pairs from the costa, and 
Tunning almost parallel with the margin, the lowest pair 
springing from near the base of the costa, the other pair from 
below the middle; these nerves and costa are rominent and 
downy beneath, the rest glabrous. Panicle terminal, trichotomous, 
 Scarcely leafy, but bracteated with small scales at the setting on 
of the pedicels, and there is also a small pair of bracts near the 
middle ‘of the pedicels. Flowers gracefully drooping. Calyw 
small, ovate, shortly 5-lohed, Joes small obtuse, erect. Corolla 
FEBRUARY lst, 1849. Cs 
