Tas. 5754. 
DELOSTOMA DENTATUM. 
Toothed-leaved Delostoma. 
Nat. Ord. Branontacr2.—Dipynamta ANGIOSPERMIA. 
Gen. Char. Calyx coriaceus, alabastro obovoideus, clausus acuminatus, 
adultus 2-8-labiatus. Corolla tubulosa, plus minusve incurya, limbo 
patente 5-lobo sub-2-labiato. Stamina 4 fertilia, quinto setiformi v. 0, 
didynama; antherarum loculi subdiscreti. Ovariun 2-loculare; stylus 
filitormis, stigmate 2-lamellato. Oapsula oblonga v. lineari-oblonga, com- 
presso 4-gona, utrinque attenuata, valvis cymbiformibus levibus, septo 
valvis contrario (parallelo, DC.), polysperma. Semina in loculis plurise- 
riata, compressissima, late alata.—Frutices Peruvim et Nove Granade 
imcole. Folia opposita, petiolata, simplicia, elliptico-oblonga. ‘Racemi inter 
ramulos oppositos orti, pauciflori, bracteis 0 v. minutis. © Flores conspicut. 
—Bureau, Monog. Bignon. p. 51, ¢.16. Copazzta, Karst. et Trian. in 
Linnea, v. 28. p. 426. 
Dertostoma dentatum, parce puberulum, foliis amplis oblongis subacutis 
obtuse serratis, calycis tubo campanulato 5-gono angulis superne 
nodoso-incrassatis lobis 8 parvis triangulari-ovatis aristato-acuminatis, 
corolla alba y. pallide rosea glaberrima tubo incurvo, staminibus 4 cum 
quinto setiformi, stylo pubescente. 
Detostoma dentatum. Don in Hd. Phil. Journ. 1823, p. 263. Gen. Syst. 
Gard. v. 4. p. 228. DC. Prodr. v. 9. p. 198. 
A remarkably beautiful plant, with the habit of a Gesne- 
ria, raised from seeds sent by Professor J ameson, of Quito, 
to that able and intelligent horticulturalist Isaac Anderson 
Henry, Esq., of Hay Lodge, Edinburgh, with whom it 
flowered in October of last year. It is a native of Gualesca, 
near Cuenca, in Ecuador. The genus consists of three or 
four other species, none of which have ever been introduced, 
and the present is the only one hitherto figured in botanical 
works. 
Descr. A small shrub of robust habit, sparsely pubescent 
on the branchlets and leaves below. Branches stout, terete. 
FEBRUARY Ist, 1869. 
