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EOGIERA CORDATA. 
ROGIEEA CORDATA. 
Nat. Order. — Cinchonacels. 
flowered ; flowers crowded, of a pretty rose-colour, bearded 
with golden hairs in the throat ; bracts on the secondary and 
mostly on the tertiary branches, innate on the peduncles above 
the base, triiid. All parts, even the outside of the corollas, 
pubescent with long loose hairs ; the hairs of the throat and 
inside of the corolla articulated. 
Rogiera cordata, Planchon. — Heart-leaved Rogiera. — 
Leaves subsessile, ovate or ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, cordate 
at the base, coriaceous, with scattered hairs above, and on the 
veins beneath, or at length becoming glabrous ; stipules ovate- 
lanceolate, foliaceous, reflexed ; cymes terminal, corymbose, 
many-flowered; teeth of the calyx half the length of the tube, 
triangular ; filaments inserted above the middle of the tube of 
the corolla ; anthers reaching to the throat; the style about 
half the length of the tube. 
Syn. — Rogiera cordata, Planchon : Flore dcs Serres, sub 
t. 442 ; Rondeletia cordata, Bentham : Planta: Hartwegiana?, 
p. 85 ; R. thyrsijlora of gardens. 
Generic Character. — Rogiera, Planchon. — Calyx with the 
tube globose, adherent to the ovary; limb four-parted, the seg- 
ments short or rather long. Corolla salver-shaped, limb with 
obtuse segments, quincuncially imbricated in sestivatiou, the 
throat bearded, destitute of a prominent ring. Stamens five, 
inserted above or about the middle of the tube of the corolla ; 
filaments bristle-like, longer than the anthers ; anthers linear- 
oblong, affixed by the back in the middle of the very narrow 
connective, connivent on the throat of the corolla, or flat and 
included ; anther-cells two, parallel, bursting by a vertical slit. 
Disk epigynous, annular, nectariferous Style filiform, bifid at 
the apex, the compressed linear divisions slightly dilated, with 
papillose stigmatk surfaces within. Ovary two-celled ; placenta 
axile, undivided, bearing ovules on the entire surface. Ovules 
numerous. Fruit a sub-globose capsule, bursting loculicidally 
with entire valves. — Shrubs from Guatimala ; branches dividing 
ternately or in forks ; leaves opposite, oblong, feather -veined ; 
stipules rather large and entire, each formed of two confluent 
adjacent ones ; cymes terminal, sessile, three-forked, many- 
BESCRIPTIOjS". — A showy shrub said to grow four to eight feet high, with three-forked or two- 
forked branches, and somewhat leathery opposite leaves, ovate-lanceolate in form, acuminated 
at the summit and slightly cut into a heart shape at the base, three to four inches long, with 
scattered hairs above and on the veins beneath, mostly disappearing with age. The stipules, 
which are composed of two blended together, form single, entire, ovate-lanceolate, leafy bodies 
half an inch long and curved downwards. The large cymes of numerous rose-coloured flowers 
are terminal and coiymbose. The salver-shaped corollas are hairy on the outside and have a 
dense fringe of gold-coloured hairs in the throat ; they are much longer than the minute, short- 
toothed calyx. The filaments rise above the middle of the tube, and the anthers reach to about 
the base of the incisions between the lobes of the corolla ; the style terminates in two flattened 
linear stigmatic lobes about half-way up the tube of the corolla. 
In the description of this plant in the Plantce Hartwcgianm, the flowers are said to be tetra- 
merous, but this, as pointed out by M. Planchon, is an error, as we also have ascertained by the 
examination of original specimens in the collection of the British Museum. The various species 
of this genus are said to last long in flower, and have a sweet but not very fragrant odour ; the 
profusion of the blossom and the delicacy of the colour make up for the small size and inconspicuous 
character of the single flowers. — A. H. 
History, kc. — The pretty stove shrub represented in the accompanying plate, was, we 
believe, first raised in this country some three or four years since by Mr. Smith, gardener to 
-J. Anderson, Esq., of the Holme, Regent's Park; the plant being an accidental seedling which 
germinated in the soil adhering to some imported Orchids. About the same time Mr. Basset, 
gardener to R. 8. Holford, Esq., raised the same or an allied species in a similarly accidental 
manner. We have not had an opportunity of closely examining the flowers of these plants, but 
from the identity of foliage between our present subject and Mr. Smith's plant, we have no 
hesitation in regarding them as being of one species. It however reached this country last 3 ear 
from another som*ce, namely, the nursery of M. Van Houttc of Ghent, where four or five species 
of this new genus Rogiera have been recently flowered. They are all natives of the temperate 
regions of Guatimala, often growing in company with Lycastc Skinneri. In the hands of clever 
cultivators we have no doubt the kind now represented will form a very ornamental plant, 
being managable and conspicuous from the masses in which its tender rose-coloured flowers are 
produced; but, as it is a free-growing plant, it will require attention to keep it within the 
bounds which fashion has prescribed to examples of first-rate culture. Our figure was made in 
February frnm a dwarf plant, very nicely flowered by Mr. Gaines, nurseryman, of Battersea. 
Rogiera amccna (see vol. ii.) with which the present subject has been identified in Pazton's 
Flower Garden under the name of Rondeletia thyrsoidea, is a different and apparently a coarser 
growing species, flowering however very freely in a young slate, li. Etoezlii has more of the 
habit of U. cordata. Unth these are also in cultivation in this country. — M. 
