BOUVARDIE A FLEURS JAUNES. 217 
Traduetion of the french text. 
YELLOW-FLOWERED BOUVARDIA. 
BOUVARDIA FLAVA, 
Erymorocy : Cm. Bovvamp, ancient Director of the royal garden of plants, in Paris. 
CLASS AND ORDER. 
RAL ORDER . . i 
GENERIC CHARACTER. see above. 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER 
The shrub which I now describe is about a yard high. Its stem is woody and covered with a 
grey bark; whilst the herbaceous glabrous reddish divaricate branches are dashed with pale green 
spots. The leaves Md bee ee: tapering at the base into a Du petiole, are acuminate, the summit 
of the point rolled down, furnished with veins immerged o 
hairy on the inferior; liene hairs more abundant towards ee 
each hair is reposed on a sort of little breast; the blade, which is membranous, of a tend 
t is exposed to the sun. — The petioles are canaliculated above, round be- 
low, and lightly inflated at the base. — The s stipules are of two sorts: those which accompany the 
caulinary leaves are more or less connate at the bas Së and are divided in three or four subulated 
unequal segments; the intermediate one onger; those which accompany the young lea 
Y 
or less elongated and divided in four segments of which the RAS 
e pedun ry 
by the position that they take at the Er of the branches, are ordinarily triflorous; the 
pedicels slender, filiform, accompanied by setaceous bracteolæ, terminating by a flower of a bea 
‘ial bright yellow colour. — The hemispheric calyx is traversed by four prominent nerves, corres- 
P to each of the divisions which are E strewed with little white He 
corolla whose tube attains about four centimetres in length, is completely glabrous (both at the 
Ge and the interior) = divided into four oval spreading lobes, 
3 mens, which do not pass be og the orifice of the tube, are almost sessile: the anthers, 
fixed = + middle of the x are oblong, yellowish. — The style, perfectly glabrous, rises above 
the tube of the corolla, and divides into two small stigmatic oblong lobes 
This shrub is originary from manens and has been imported in Seigiam by M. Ghiesbreght. 
, Van Houtte’s Nursery, at Ghent, is t the only owner of this plant, which has. flowered there for 
the first time, early wie ring the E d season, but hae not yet brought forth fruits 
It presents a great resemblance the B werd | s Marr. and Gar. but differs from it by 
its more elongated sie its calyx Maus with یه‎ Är bes Va zeg by the yellow 
colour of its flowers, which on the contrary, are miniate in the B. 
J. DECAISNE. 
