[Plate 49.] 
THE EOX-LEAYED CANTUA. 
(CA^JTUA BUXIFOLIA.) 
A beautiful half-hardy Shrubs from Peru, belonging to the Natural Order 0/ Polemoniads. 
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TEE BOX-LEAVED CANTUA, Leaves oval, acute, 
smooth or downy, hardened at the Tbase ; sometimes 
three-lobed or otherwise lobed. Panicles loose, downy, 
corymbose. Calyx downy, blunt at the base, more than 
thrice as short as the corolla. Corolla a long tube with a 
concave limb and obcordate segments. Style projecting. 
CANTUA BUXIFOLIA ; foliis ovalibus acutia glabris 
V, pubescentibua basi induratis nunc trilobis, paniculis 
laxis corymbosis tomentosis, calyce pubeacente basi 
obtuso corolla plus triplo breviore, corolla longe tubulosa 
limbo concavo laciniis obcordatis, stylo exserto. 
Cantua buxifolia : Lamarch DicL^ 1. 603. Bentham in Be Cand. Prodr,, 9. 321. Bof, Mag.y t. 4582; alias Periphragraos 
dependens Ruiz and Pavon^ Fl, Chilensis, II. 18, t. 133. 
CTNCE the introduction of the Fuchsia and the Cliina Rose, our gardens have received nothing so 
remarkable as this plant. Long since made known to botanists, and sought for bj every collector 
tliat has visited the temperate parts of South America, it has at last been obtained by Mr. W, 
Lobb, from the mountains of Peru, for Messrs. Veitch of Exeter, who have flowered what is now 
represented. The blossoms appear in profusion in the month of May, and are fully four inches 
long, with a crimson and yellow tube, vivid sanguine in the bud, and rich rose colour when 
expanded, with a lighter tint in the inside. 
Tliere is no reason to doubt that this will be as hardy, and as cultivable, as the Fuchsia itself, 
and we may expect to see it in a few years in every cottage garden. 
In his enumeration of Polemoniads, in Do Candolle^s Prodromus, Mr. Bentham has reduced to 
this species the Cantua tomentosa of Cavanilles; and Sir W. Hooker has gone farther, in the 
" Botanical Magazine," by adding as synonymes the Canlua m:ata of Cavanilles, and unifora of 
Persoou. We however believe that these are so many distinct species. 
VOL. II. 
