CUPHEA MINIATA. 
(Vermilion-flowered Cuphea.) 
Class. 
DODECANDRIA. 
Order. 
MONOGYNIA. 
Natural Order. 
LYTHRACEJE. 
Generic Character —Calyx tubular, gibbose at the 
base on the upper side; limb wide, twelve toothed, 
with six of the teeth erect, and the other six small, 
or nearly obsolete, rising from the sinuses of the inner 
teeth. Petals six or seven, unequal. Stamens eleven 
to fourteen, rarely six or seven, unequal, inserted in 
the throat of the calyx. Gland under the ovarium 
thick. Style filiform. Stigma simple, or rather bifid. 
Capsule membranous, covered by the calyx, one or 
two-celled, at length cleft by the deplexed placenta as 
well as the calyx. Seeds nearly orbicular, compressed, 
wingless. 
Specific Character.— Plant perennial. Stems green, 
erect, herbaceous, growing about two feet high, slender, 
leafy. Leaves opposite, ovate, acuminate, entirely 
covered with white bristly hairs. Petioles very short. 
Flower spike terminal, leafy ; Flowers solitary, one 
springing from the axil of each leaf. Pedicels very 
short. Calyx persistent, long, cylindrical, tubular, 
gibbose at the base, broader towards the mouth, 
oblique ; lower part bright yellow green, upper part 
rich purple. Petals two, situated at the upper side of 
the mouth of the calyx, rounded, intensely brilliant 
vermilion. Stamens enveloped in a purple woolly 
substance.— Bon. 
This brilliant flowering stove perennial was introduced to the collection of 
Messrs. Kollisson, of Tooting, from the Continent ; but its native country, and by 
whom originally introduced, we are sorry to add is unknown : it is, however, most 
likely a native of some part of South America. 
It is a plant of very fine growth and easy culture, requiring only to be potted in 
a mixture of equal parts of light loam, sand, and heath mould, and cuttings root 
freely in the same kind of soil. 
