DIPLADENIA SPLENDENS, 
و حح 
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Apocynacex ٩ Echitee. — Pentandria-Monogynia. 
CHARACT. GENERIS. — Vide au fo 167. bra, parte angusta tubi lobis wee quali, parte 
CHARACT. SPECIEI. — D. (f Micradenia) sp latis sul 
dens : Frutex, s candens; pitt in oe ` foliis mëi gege Gage subæquantibu 
stlibus elliptico- -acuminatis bast cordatis undulatis Alp. DC Prod. VIII. p. 481 et 676, 
subtus precipue pu ube ecentibus, veuis rpm event 
s, brac- 
SYNONYMIA. — Echites splendens Hoox. Bot. 
teis lobisque calycinis subulatis ; vedi mie? gla- | Mag t. 3976. : 
Texte du Botanical Magazine de M. Hooker. 
SPLENDID-FLOWERED ECHITES. 
ECHITES SPLENDENS. 
Erm. xirs, a sort of gem, and here, by alteration, alluding to the twining habitus of these 
plants (viper). 
GENERIC CHARACTER 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER 
SYNONYMY : Dipladenia splendens. Alp. D. C. see above. 
۱ see above. 
Of the many handsome species of this Genus which the late researches of Botanists and Travellers 
in Brazil have made known to us, this is ge the most beautiful, and may vie with the 
choicest productions of Flora ich have been of late years introduced to our gardens. It was sent 
Organ Mountains to Messrs. Sief of the Mount Radford Nursery, Exeter, last year (1841), 
by their siiis ی‎ Mr. Lobb; and already has produced such copious and richly coloured 
en as wt ified every one who has seen them. Dried native s ecimens were sent hom 
the same time mm ` the living plants, and they, as € as the cultivated ones, show, ved 
= Gardner, ege he botanized extensively in the same tract, did not meet with it; and that it 
is a species undescribed even by the authors (Martius and Lien? of the « Echites of Brazil,» 
published in the Botanische Zeitung (1). In the ی‎ work now quoted, it would be placed in 
their second group of the climbing species. « B. Coro en calycis laciniis ۰ 
Stamina ae medium tubi inserta. » But, in that Loge there is not one species that agrees with it. 
e stems are zt and in the old plants, probably of ge length; branches rounded, 
phibroui. ud in opposite , e pairs, very large, from four to six or eight inches in length, 
nearly sessile, ës ` or in waved, ac Sa e cordate at e base; above almost gla- 
brous, and strongly marked with deeply cr reticulated veins ; gens pale-coloured, decidedly 
Si "m on the veins. Racemes of four to six very large and extremely showy 
flowers. Peduncles elongated , shorter, however, E e the leaves. Pedicels about an inch long Bracteas 
small, subulate. Calyx small, deeply cut e five slightly recurved, subulate, segments, tipped with 
red. Corolla between funnel-shapped and salver-shaped : the tube white, spreading upwards; the 
limb flat, four inches — beautiful rose-colour, deeper at the margins of the five, rounded lobes; 
and with a very deep star eye. Stamens inserted above the middle of the tube. Glands two, 
each two-lobed, at the base of the germen. 
Fig. 1. Tube of the Corolla laid open. 2. Pistil: 一 magnified. 
(1) Beiblätter zur Flora, 1841. Erster Band. 
