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THIBAUDIA PINCHIXCHENSTS. 
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THIBAUDIA PINCHINCHENSIS. 
Thibaudia pinchinchensis, Bentham (Pin- 
chincha Thibaudia), var. glabra. — Vaccin- 
iaceaa. 
The genus Thibaudia is an extensive 
one, occurring chiefly in South America and 
Mexico, though, in some instances, native of 
the East Indies. Notwithstanding that it 
contains many plants of great beauty, compa- 
ratively few are known in a state of cultiva- 
tion, a circumstance much to be regretted. It 
was named by Pavon, in commemoration of 
Thiebaut de Burneaud, who held the office of 
Secretary to the Linnaean Society of Paris, 
and was the author of some botanical memoirs. 
The species of Thibaudia are evergreen shrubs 
remarkable for the elegance of their blossoms. 
Thibaudia pinchinchensis, which does not 
appear to be yet introduced in a living state, 
is a shrub with somewhat angular branches, 
oval-oblong acuminate leaves on short petioles, 
and axillary racemes of flowers, which are 
shorter than the leaves. 
The variety glabra, represented in the en- 
graving, differs primarily, as the name sug- 
gests, in being destitute of a certain degree of 
scurfy hairiness present in the species. It is 
an eminently beautiful shrub : in the flower- 
ing plant at Kew about two feet high, but 
growing several feet high in its native locali- 
ties. The leaves are alternate, on short pe- 
tioles, oblong-ovate, acuminate, between cori- 
aceous and fleshy, and either entirely glabrous, 
or having only a very few short scattered palea- 
ceous hairs; the nerves of the leaves besides the 
midrib, consist of two on each side from below 
the middle, generally but not always opposite. 
The flowers grow in axillary and sub- terminal 
racemes of from four to six or more together ; 
the calyx, together with the adherent ovary, 
is red, turbinate, and quite glabrous, the limb 
cut into five short triangular teeth ; the 
corolla is nearly an inch long, shaped like a 
slightly swollen tube, with a limb of five equal 
somewhat spreading teeth ; it is of a waxy 
