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HOSTA* certilea, 
Blue-flowered Hosta. 
DIDYNAMIA ANGIOSPERMIA. 
Nat. ord. VerBENACER. 
HOSTA Jacq.— Calyx obsolet® bilabiatus, 4-dentatus. Corolla sub- 
ringens; lacinid intermedia labii inferioris ampla, emarginata. Drupa nuce 
4-loculari, 4-sperma. Pers. synops. 2. 148. 
Hosta cerulea. Jacq. hort. Schinbr. 1. p. 60. t. 114. Link. enum. 2. 127. 
Hostana cerulea. Pers. syn. 2. 143. 
Cornutia punctata. Walld. sp. pl. 3. 322. enum. 2. 654. 
Cornutia pyramidata. Linn. sp. pl. 876. sec. Ait. Kew. ed. 2. 4. 45. non 
Hort. Cliff nec Plumieri. 
Frutex quadripedalis, ramis tetragonis. Folia opposita, petiolata, ovata, 
acuminata, bast attenuata, subdentata, glabriuscula. Corymbi azillares, 
foliis breviores, trichotomi. Flores cerulei, sub lente punctis albis glandu- 
losis conspersi. Drupa globosa, nuce quadriloculart. Willd. 
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A native of South America and the West Indies, whence 
it is recorded in the Hortus Kewensis to have been intro- 
duced before 1738, by Dr. Houstoun. Our drawing was 
made from a small plant in the collection at Syon, where 
it is found by Mr. Forrest to require a much more con- 
siderable degree of heat than is usual with stove plants. 
Willdenow proposes to unite Hosta with Cornutia, 
because. he thinks the fruit of the true Cornutia has been 
carelessly described by Plumier; and that it is in fact 
the same as that of Hosta. But surely the arguments of 
the skilful Botanist by whom this opinion is held, depend 
too much upon mere conjecture to deserve attention ; 
* So-called by Baron Jacquin, in compliment to his celebrated country- 
man Dr. Nicholas Thomas Host, a distinguished Botanist, and now chief 
physician at the court of Vienna. 
