Tas. 4813. 
WHITLAVIA GrRaAnDIFLORA. 
Large-flowered Whitlavia. 
Nat. Ord. HypRropa#yLLaceEm.—PENTANDRIA MoNnoGYNIA. 
Gen. Char. Calyx patentissimus, 5-partitus, sinubus nudus. Corolla hypo- 
gyna, tubuloso-campanulata, tubo inflato, calyce multo longiore, intus basi squa- 
mulis 5 staminibus oppositis iisque adnatis aucto, ore subconstricto, limbo quin- 
quelobo patente. Stamina 5, squamulis corolle adnata, exserta. Ovarium spurie 
biloculare, placentis carnosis. Ovula plurima: stylus exsertus, bifidus. Capsula 
subcompressa, unilocularis, loculicida, valvis medio placentiferis. Semina nume- 
rosa, tuberculata.—Herbe Californize caulescentes, annua, glanduloso-pubescentes ; 
caulibus erectis flexuosis ; foliis alternis longe petiolatis indivisis ovatis grosse den- 
tatis hirsutis; floribus circinato-racemosis speciosis albo-ceruleis pedicellatis; pedi- 
cellis gracillimis secundis patentissimis glandulosis. y 
WHITLAVIA grandiflora ; caule diffuso flexuoso, foliis subdeltoideis, corolla tubo 
calyce duplo longiore, squamulis oblongis retusis. 
Wuittavra grandiflora. Harv. in Lond. Journ. of Bot. v. 5. p. 312. t. 11. 
Walp. Repert. Bot. v. 6. p. 525. 
This beautiful annual has attracted the attention of all lovers 
of Horticulture at the Chiswick Exhibitions of the present sum- 
mer (1854), having been sent by the Messrs. Veitch from their 
nurseries at Exeter and King’s-road, Chelsea. The seeds had 
been the”year before sent home from California by Mr. William 
Lobb. It was first detected in that country by the late Dr. 
Coulter, and described by Dr. Harvey, in the ‘ London J ournal 
of Botany,’ as a new genus, to which is added a second species, 
W. minor, also found by Mr. W. Lobb. The generic name 
commemorates the services rendered to Botany by Francis 
Whitla, Esq., especially to the Belfast Botanic Garden. ‘ When: 
introduced to our gardens,” remarks Dr. Harvey, “ the plants . 
now described will probably become as universal favourites as 
the Nemophile and Gilie (to which might have been added 
Lutoca viscosa), which they rival, or perhaps excel, in beauty. 
From Eutoca, Whitlavia is at once distinguished by the form of 
OCTOBER lst, 1854. * 
