196G 



* WIGANDIA caracasana. 



Caraccas Wic/andia. 



PENTANDRIA DIGYNIA. 



Nat. ord. Hydroleace*. 



WIGANDIA. Calyx 5-partitus, persistens. Corolla infundibularis, 

 limbo 5-partito patente. Stamina 5, cxserta. Aniherce sagittatae. Stijli 2. 

 Stigmata subpeltato-dcpressa. Capsula ovato-oblonga, bilocularis, (unilocu- 

 laris m.) loculicido-bivalvis. Placenta 4, bina; in quolibet loeulo laiiiiniipfornics 

 (2, bilobfe, reflexse, polysperma; m.). Humb. et Bonpl. n. g. et sp.pl. vol. 2. 

 Romer ^- Schvltes, 6. xviii. 



W. caracasana ; foliis ellipticis acutis duplicato-dentatis (utrinque) hirto-tomen- 

 tosis supra canescentibus subtxls incanis et moUissiniis, spicis paniculatis. 

 Humb. Bonpl. Sj- Kunth. nov. gen. et sp.pl. 3. 128. Romer if Schulles. 

 Sp. PL 6. 190. 



Planta culta in caldario orgyalis, a spontanea, quam coram habeo, 

 diversa est foliis viridioribus cnntextu laxiore et aliquando costd vcnisfjue 

 primariis hispidis, necnon Jioribus triplh majoribus. Ovarium certissimi 

 uniloculare est placentis bilobis rtvolutis, nee biloculare. 



A native of the Caraccas, where it was originally found 

 at the Quebrada of Cotecita, at the height of 2880 feet above 

 the level of the sea, by Messrs. Humboldt and Bonpland. 

 To this country it was introduced from the Royal Garden at 

 Berlin, whence it was sent to His Grace the Duke of Nor- 

 tliumberland, to whom I am obliged for the specimen now 

 figured. 



It is a tender stove shrub, about six feet high, flowering 

 at uncertain periods. 



* So named by Kunth in compliment to John Wigand, a bishop of Pome- 

 rania, and author of VercB historicE de succino prussico, et de licrbis in 

 Borussia nascentibns. Jena, 1590. 



