Tas. 5788. 
STERIPHOMA parapoxum. 
Paradoxical Steriphoma. 
Nat. Ord. CapparIpDEz.—OctTANDRIA Monoeynia. 
Gen. Char. Calyx cylindraceo-campanulatus, apice 2-4-lobus, irregulariter 
ruptus, basi squamulis 4 auctus. Discus annularis. Petala 4, sessilia, 
toro inserta, 2 antica paulo majora. Stamina 6, cum petalis inserta, 
adscendentia; 2 postica breviora, filamentis longe exsertis. Ovarium 
oblongum v. cylindraceum, 2-loculare, ovulis « 2-seriatis, stigmate 
sessili. Bacca globosa, angulata v. cylindrica, corticata, pulposa. 
Semina o, nidulantia, angulata; cotyledones spiraliter convolute. 
Frutices Americe tropice. Folia 1-foliolata, foliolo integerrimo. Racemi 
terminales, pedicellis apice refractis v. decurvis, 1-floris. Flores speciosi, 
aurantiact, 
SrerrpHoma paradoxum; _foliis 
apicibus fere setaceis. 
Srerrpnoma paradoxum. Endl. ea Karst. Ausw. Gew. Venezuel. p. 10, 
cum icone. Planch. in Flore des Serres, v. 6, t. 534, 535. 
SrepHanta cleomoides, Willd. Sp. Pl. v. 2, p.239. D.C. Prodr. v. 1, p. 253. 
Carparis paradoxa, Jacq., Hort. Schoenb. 1, p. 58, t. iii. 
oblongo-lanceolatis, caudato-acuminatis 
A beautiful stove-shrub, introduced into Europe so long 
ago as 1797, when it was figured by Jacquin from plants that 
flowered in the Imperial Botanic Gardens at Scheenbrunn 
(Vienna). Inthe Royal Gardens of Kew it has existed for 
many years, having been received from the Trinidad Botanic 
Gardens some forty years ago, and it flowers freely every year 
in a stove. My attention was drawn to the fact of its never 
having been figured in this Magazine by Dr. Moore, of Glas- 
nevin Botanic Gardens, who sent beautiful flowering specimens 
from which the accompanying drawing 
in April of last year, 
was made. It is a native of the Caraccas and various parts 
of New Grenada. : 
Descr. A leafy shrub, four to ten feet high. Branches 
erect or ascending, slender, terete, woody, covered with fur- 
furaceous pubescence. Leaves alternate, crowded towards 
AuGust Ist, 1869. 
