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and branches, between the petioles of the leaves, is a dense tuft of soft spicules of a dirty brown colour. Leaves, on short 
thick petioles, four to five or six inches long, coriaceous, glabrous, between ovate and elliptical, quite سود‎ acute at the 
base, shortly and sign acuminate at the — trongly 5> nerves very pees beneath, where the 
colour is pale green, while it is dark green above. Peduncle terete, as long as the , together with the 
thyrsoid panicle of Moe. Fini Pedicels Mont as sa as the calyx, which latter ‘ie re iul nearly globose, 
fleshy, pale rose; the very short margin or limb erect and erose. Petals four, spreading, broad, ovate, acute, rose- 
coloured. Stamens eight, pointing and spreading to one side : filaments subulate, white, curved : anthers also subulate, 
deep purple, wrinkled on the upper side: at the base above formed into two incurved lobes, below furnished with a 
"egi spur. Ovary combined with the calyx : style curved, subulate ; stigma obtuse.— Bot. Mag., t. 4650. 
544. TuynmsaCANTHUS RUTILANS. Planchon ¥ Linden. A 
beautiful hothouse shrub, from Central America. Flowers rich 
crimson. Belongs to Acanthads. Introduced by Mr. Linden. 
(Fig. 266.) 
We are only acquainted with this from the following note, and a coloured 
fipure circulated by Mr. 
Linden in the beginning. of 
in mes of 
brilliant crimson tubular 
bl bout two inches 
* Thyrsacanthus rutilans 
Planch. & Lind. ; T. (sec- 
tionis primee Nees); foliis 
subsessilibus  oblongo-lan- 
dicellum د‎ aCe co- 
mis sterilibus 2 (€ eapitellatis.— Cette espéce a été découverte par M, 
Schlim, MEE de mon établissement, dans les endroits humides et ombragés 
pres de Sa Cruz Gites d'Ocana, Nouvelle Grenada) à un altitude de 4000 
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