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Tas. 4825. 
DIPLADENIA Harrisit. 
Lord Harris’s Dipladenia. 
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a 
Nat, Ord. ApocyNE®.—PENTANDRIA DIGYNIA. 
Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Tas. 4702.) 
DrPLaDENIA Harrisii ; scandens fruticosa glabra, foliis amplis oblongo-ovatis 
acuminatis, racemis axillaribus folio brevioribus, floribus ante expansionem 
nutantibus, lobis calycinis ovatis obtusissimis intus squamula laterali auctis, 
corolla tubo inferne constricto basi inflato, squamis hypogynis 5 subdigitatis 
basi in cupulam ovaria superantem unitis, staminibus ad constrictionem — 
tubi corolle insertis, antheris villosis. 
DipLapENIA Harrisii. Purdie, MS. 
An inhabitant of the banks of the Caroni, and to the eastward 
of Mount Tamana, Trinidad, where it was recently discovered by 
Mr. Purdie, the intelligent superintendent of the Botanic Garden 
of that island. Dried specimens and excellent drawings by Miss 
Fuller and Mr. Cazabon, and descriptions and living plants, 
Were at once sent to us by its discoverer, and from them we 
have profited, as well as from superb flowering specimens sent 
to us by Messrs. Veitch and Sons, who are the first to have 
flowered it in Europe, in September, 1854. Mr. Pardie well. 
observes of it :—'This fine plant is not surpassed by any one of 
its congeners, whether we consider the size and beauty and fra- 
grance of its flowers of metallic lustre, or its entire habit.” The 
very buds are handsome, large and drooping, with a blend- 
ing of red into a full and clear yellow, which colours however 
become more brilliant in the fully expanded corolla. The very 
blunt calycine segments, and the peculiar nature of the hypo- 
gynous glands, forming together a rather large lobed and ‘fim- 
briated cup, differs, as Mr. Purdie justly observes, from most of 
our known Dipladenia ; but we apprehend it as good a Dipla- ae 
JANUARY Ist, 1855. 
