CASSELIA INTEGRIFOLIA. 
(Entire-leaved Casselia.) 
Class. Order. 
DIDYNAMIA. ANGIOSPERMIA. 
Natural Order. 
VERBENACEJ5. 
Generic Character. — inferior, persistent, 
tubular, five-cleft or five-toothed. Corolla hypogynous, 
monopetalous, tubular, deciduous, with an irregular 
five-lobed limb. .Estivation imbricated. Stamens 
four, unequal. Ovary superior, two-celled. Ovules 
few. Style one. Stigma capitate and imdivided. 
Fruit a berry. 
Specific Character.— PZant an evergreen shrub. 
Branches numerous, smooth, round. Leaves alternate, 
without stipules, simple, entire, ovate-lanceolate, 
obtuse, waved, petiolate, smooth, glossy green on both 
surfaces. Flowers produced in loose racemes, of from 
four to six on each, proceeding from the axils of the 
leaves near the extremities of the branches. Calyx 
tubular, somewhat campanulate, five-toothed, teeth 
acuminated. Corolla funnel-shaped, delicate purple- 
blue, throat large, paler than the limb, marked with 
deep purple pencillings, interior of the tube yellow ; 
limb five-lobed, somewhat two-lipped ; upper lip two- 
lobed, lower lip three-lobed, middle segment longest, 
the whole more or less reflexed. Stamens shorter than 
the tube of the corolla. 
Authorities and Synonymes.— Casselia integrifolia 
Nees Von Esenb., and Mart, also SteudeVs Nomen- 
clator, p. 303. 
This beautiful stove shrub is a native of the woods of Brazil, whence it was 
introduced some years ago to the continent, but by whom we are unable to say. In 
1843 it was brought to this country. Messrs. Rollisson and Son, nurserymen, 
Tooting, received plants of it from M. Neumann, of Paris, which flowered in April, 
1844, when our drawing was made. 
In cultivation it is a hardy stove plant, requiring a moderate temperature not 
much exceeding a warm greenhouse. 
It should be potted in a mixture of peat, loam, and sand, with good drainage, 
and plenty of room for the roots to run. 
Increase is easily effected by cuttings planted in sand or soil, and placed in a 
moderate but moist heat. 
