Tas. 4493. 
ZAUSCHNERIA CALIFORNICA; var. LATIFOLIA. 
Californian Zauschneria ; broad-leaved var. 
Nat. Ord. ONaGRARIER.—OcTANDRIA Monoeynra. 
Gen. Char. Calye superus deciduus, tubo infundibuliformi cum ovario arti- 
culato colorato, basi supra ovarium globoso-ventricoso, limbo quadripartito. 
Petala 4, obcordata, bifida, summio tubi inserta. Stam. 8. Filamenta longe ex- 
serta. Anthere lineares, dorso aflixe. Ovarium lineare, tetragonum ; stylus 
filiformis, longe exsertus. Stigma peltato-4-lobum. Capsula linearis, tetragona, 
quadrivalvis, indistincte 4-locularis, polysperma. Semina oblonga, comosa.— 
Suffrutex Californicus v. Mexicanus, decumbens ; foliis alternis ; floribus solitariis 
coccineis in axillis foliorum supremorum, seu spicatis, spicis foliosis. 
ZAUSCHNERIA Californica. 
a, foliis linearibus. Z. Californica, Presi, Relig. Henk. v. 2. p. 28. tab. 52. Hook. 
et Arn. Bot. of Beech. Voy. pp.140, 340. Torr. et Gr. Fl. N. Am. v.1. p.486. 
Benth. Pl. Hartw. p. 310. 
B. foliis lineari-lanceolatis. Z. Mexicana, Presi, l.c. p.29. %. Californica 8, Torr. 
et Gr. lie. 
y: latifolia; major, foliis ovatis. (Tas. Nostr. 4493.) Z. Californica, Lindl. in 
Journ. Hort. Soc. v. 3. p. 241. cum Te. 
Forty-five years ago this handsome plant was alluded to in an 
excellent Memoir on Goniocarpus, published by Mr. Kénig in 
the ‘Annals of Botany,’ vol.i. p.543, as existing in the Banksian 
Herbarium, “a beautiful new genus, a native of California, 
having the flowers of a Fuchsia anda fruit exactly like Epilobium. 
These specimens were doubtless those of Mr. Menzies, some 
of which we have also the good fortune to possess in our own 
herbarium. No further notice seems to have been taken of it 
till Presl, in the 2nd vol. of his ‘ Reliquize Heenkeane,’ published 
it under the name of Zauschneria, in compliment to Dr. Zausch- 
her, a Professor of Nat. History in the University of Prague. 
Presl added, though doubtfully, a second species from Mexico ; 
but if we consider his two plants as distinct, we must here make 
a third, for our cultivated plant, as may be seen by Dr. Lindley’s 
plant above quoted and by our figure, is as distinct from 7 
Mewicana, as that is from Z. Californica. In some of Mr. 
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