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Capania gran- 
diflora, Decaisne. 
Large-flowered Ca¬ 
pania ( Flore des Ser¬ 
ves , v. 499).—Nat. 
Ord., Gesneracese § 
Gesnerese. — Syn., 
Besleria? grandiflora, 
Humboldt , Bonpland , 
and Kunth. — Dry- 
monia ? grandiflora, 
G. Bon. —A beautiful 
perennial plant, re¬ 
quiring to be grown 
in a temperate stove. 
The stems are sub- 
scandent, somewhat 
woody at the base, 
with opposite, oval, 
stalked, softly hairy leaves, of moderate size, sometimes unequal at the base, more or less acuminate and crenate- 
dentate on the margin. The flowers grow from the axils of the leaves, and the ends of the shoots, on longish 
peduncles, which are terminated by a few (about three) large very showy blossoms on long erect pedicels; these 
flowers are large, nodding, irregularly campanulate, the tubes curved and ventricose beneath, the limb oblique? 
of five broad-spreading, nearly equal emarginate lobes ; they are white, downy on the outside, the face of the 
limb elegantly marked with close dotted lines of rose-purple. “ We may hope to see numerous hybrids com¬ 
bining the beauty of this type with that of other Gesneracese.” From New Grenada : Santa Fe de Bogota. 
Introduced to the Continental gardens by Mr. Linden, in 1847. Flowers in ? 
Thibatjdia scabriuscula, Humboldt and Bonpland. Eoughish Thibaudia {Boost. FI. Gard . i., 75).—Nat. Ord., 
Yacciniacese.—A pretty greenhouse evergreen bush, with spreading, slender, downy branches, bearing broad oblong, 
almost cordate leaves. The flowers are in drooping clusters from the ends of the shoots, and issue from among 
shining, pink, membranous, oblong scales, forming cones an inch and a half long; the corolla is a slightly 
swollen tube, rather more than half an inch long, hairy, rich crimson tipped with green. From New Grenada. 
Introduced by Mr. Purdie about 1848. Flowered in April at Syon. 
Capania grandiflora: reduced. 
