Tap. 5750. 
TACSONTA ERIANTHA, 
Woolly-flowered Tacsonia. 
Nat. Ord. PasstrrorE®.—PrEnranpria TRIGYNIA. 
Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Tas. 557 1.) 
Tacsonta eriantha; caule glabrato, foliis latis profunde 3-lobis 5-nervibus, 
lobis ovatis calloso-serratis supra glabris subtus niveo-tomentosis venis 
glabratis, stipulis dimidiato-orbiculatis aristato-dentatis, bracteis con- 
natis venosis venis viridibus calyceque albo-lanatis, calycis tubo elon- 
gato, lobis petalisque consimilibus oblongis apice rotundatis roseis, 
coronis brevissimis exteriore carnosulo dentato intermedio integro, in- 
teriore crenulato. 
Tacsonta eriantha. Benth. Pl. Hartweg. 183. Walp. Rep. v. 5.773. 
A noble plant, resembling in habit and colour of flower the 
well-known T. mollissima (Tab. nostr. 4187*), from which, 
however, it differs conspicuously in the white undersurface 
of the foliage and long bracts; these species, and others not 
yet introduced, are natives of the temperate Andes of Ecua- 
dor and New Granada, and are cultivated in the Gardens of 
Quito, whence they have been introduced into this country. 
The one here figured was sent by Professor Jameson, of that 
city, to Isaac Anderson Henry, Ksq., F.L.S., of Hay Lodge, 
Edinburgh, with whom it flowered last J uly. Professor 
Jameson describes it asa native of the Volcano of Pichincha, 
growing at the upper boundary of the forest regions, 1]- 
13,000 feet above the sea, ina cold and foggy climate. Asa 
greenhouse or conservatory climber, it rivals the 7. mollis- 
sima, and is as free a flowerer. 
Descr. A late woody climber. Stem nearly glabrous, an- 
gular. Leaves on stout glandular petioles an inch and a 
half to two inches long; blade four to six inches in dia- 
meter, much broader than long, deeply three-lobed, subcor- 
date at the base, glabrous above, covered below except the 
* I doubt much this being the true mollissima, H. B. K., which has 
densely tomentose stems; it more resembles 7. Quitensis, Benth. 
JANUARY lst, 1869. 
