Tas. 4724. 
LOPEZIA mMaAcrRopuyLLa. 
Large-leaved Lopesia. 
Nat. Ord. ONAGRARIEZ.—MONANDRIA Monoeynia. 
Gen. Char. Calycis limbus 4-partitus, deciduus. Petala 4, irregularia. Stamina 2, 
uno fertili antherifero, altero opposito sterili petaliformi a petalis veris sepius 
discolore. Stigma capitatum. Capsula nuda, subglobosa, 4-locularis, apice tan- 
tum loculicide quadrivalvis ; valvis placentze centrali dissepimentis adnatis. Se- 
mina plurima, minima.—Herbee erecte aut suffrutices. Folia dentata, alterna, 
rarius opposita. Racemi caulem ramosque terminantes, Flores pedicellati, pur- 
pure. DC. 
Loprzia macrophylla; fruticosa, glabriuscula, foliis petiolatis ellipticis oblon- 
gisve acuminatis denticulatis basi angustatis, sepalis erecto-patentibus lan- 
ceolatis (rubris) corollam squantibus, petalis duobus breviter unguiculatis. 
Benth. 
Loprzt1a macrophylla. Benth. in Plant. Hartweg. p. 83. n. 577. Lindl. in 
Journ. of Hort. Soc. v. 7. p. 278. Planch. in “ Flore des Serres, v. 7. t. 33. 
p- 177." Pat. et Lindl, Flower Garden, v. 3. p. 145 cum Ic. xylogr. 
n. 302. (apparently copied from the ‘ Flore des Serres.’) 
Lopxrzia grandiflora. Flora od. Bot. Zeit. 1832, Beitr. p. 101. 
Jenxia fuchsioides. Hort. Germ. 
Received from Mr. Van Houtte under the name of Jehlia 
Suchsioides ; and this-is given by Dr. Lindley and Mr. Paxton 
as. a synonym of Lopezia macrophylla of Planchon; “ but it 
seems impossible,” they say, “that it can be the plant which 
Mr. Bentham first described as Lopezia macrophylla wm the 
‘ Plante Hedwigiane,’ a shrub with downy leaves and terminal 
panicles of flowers. Our plant however is certainly the same 
species as Mr. Bentham’s ; only Hartweg’s plant is rather more 
hairy ; and assuredly our plant is identical with the woodcut in 
the ‘ Flower Garden,’ copied, we presume, from Planchon’s re- 
presentation. In regard to the inflorescence, which Mr. Bentham 
describes as being racemose (not in ‘ terminal panicles’), I think 
that appearance arises in Hartweg’s specimens from the leaves 
JULY Ist, 1853. 
