[Plate 26.] 
THE GATJNTLETTED TACSONIA. 
(TACSONIA MANICATA.) 
A Greenhouse Creeper from Peru, belonging to the Order of Passionworts. 
Jtycctffc Character. 
THE GAUNT LETT ED TACSONI A. - Bracts entire, 
united at the base, downy, longer than the tube of the 
calyx. 
downy on the under side, smooth 
upper, divided below the middle into 3 serrated lobes. 
Leafstalks with several glands. Stipules roundish, 
toothed in a crested manner. 
TACSONIA M A NIC AT A.— Bmctels integris basi conna- 
tis tomentosis calycis tubo longioribus, foliis subtus 
tomentosis supra glabris ultra medium 3-fidis ; lobis 
ovali-oblongis serratis, petiolis pluriglandulosis, stipu- 
lis subrotundis cristato-dentatis. 
Tacsonia manicata : Jussieu in Annates du Museum. Vol. VI., t. 59, f. 2. 
^yE believe this species to be unrivalled among climbers, for the brilliant scarlet of its gorgeous 
blossoms. Placed by their side, the red coat of an English soldier becomes dull and pale. It 
is a native of Peru, and probably common there, for many botanical travellers have observed if. 
Humboldt and Bonpland brought some varieties from the city of Loxa ; Hartweg says that it is found 
in hedges near that place; and it forms No. 1294 of Linden's Herbarium, gathered by his collectors 
Punck and Schlim, in the province of Merida, at the elevation of 7000 feet above the sea. 
It forms a rambling climber, with grey 3-lobed leaves and large scarlet flowers, whose tube is 
almost concealed by 3 downy bracts, from which circumstance we presume that Jussieu gave it the 
name of the gauntletted (or manicate) ; it must be owned that the tube of the flower may not unaptly 
be compared to an arm thrust into a large loose glove. The coronet consists of two principal rows of 
short violet teeth planted on the green tube of the calyx-lining. 
Upon what precise ground the Tacsonias are separated from the Passionflowers is by no means 
clear. De Candolle relies upon the former having a very long tube to the calyx and a scaly coronet ; 
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