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TAB. 4169

LEIANTHUS LONGIFOLIUS. Long-leaved Leianthus.

Nat. Ord. GENTIANEE. PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Char. Gen. LEIANTHUS. Griseb.-Calyx 5-fidus, 5-carinatus v. 5-alatus, lobis valvaribus planiusculis acuminatis, carinis alisve dorsalibus. Corolla infundibuliformis, nuda, tubi fundo tenui supra germen in faucem longiorem cum limbo 5-partito confluentem æqualem ampliato. Stamina 5, supra fundum corollæ inserta, filamentis elongatis inæqualibus. Anthera incumbentes, immutatæ neque apiculatæ. Ovarium annulo basibus desti- tutum, valvulis introflexis semibiloculare, ovulis ipsarum margini insertis. Stylus distinctus, persistens, stigmate indiviso capitulato. Capsula bival- vis, septicida, semibilocularis, placentis margini valvarum insertis. Semina placentis immersa.-Herbæ vel frutices Jamaica et America centralis, cymis terminalibus, floribus albidis vel flavis, rarius cyaneis, gracilibus. De Cand. LEIANTHUS longifolius; caule suffruticoso teretiusculo, foliis petiolatis ob- longo-lanceolatis acuminatis, cymis 3-5-floris, alis calycinis lanceo- lato-linearibus, corollæ (lutea) tubo gracili sensim ampliato, lobis oblongo-lanceolatis acuminatis genitalia æquantibus. Griseb. LEIANTHUS longifolius. Griseb. Gent. p. 196. De Cand. Prodr. 9. p. 82. LISIANTHUS longifolius. Linn. Mant. p. 43. Lam. Ill. t. 107. f. 1. Willd. Sp. Pl. 1. p. 826. Ker, Bot. Reg. t. 880. Spreng. Syst. Veget. v. 1. p. 586. TASCHIA longifolia. Mart. in Don's Gard. Dict. 4. 197. LISIANTHUS erectus, foliis lanceolatus, floribus singularibus terminalibus. Brown, Jam. p. 157. t. 9. f. 1. RAPUNCULUS fruticosus linifolius, &c. Sloane, Jam. 1. p. 15. t. 101. f. 1.

Botanical Description A small suffruticose plant, two to three feet high,

with opposite and downy, spreading or drooping, branches; and opposite and more or less downy or hairy leaves: the latter are two to four or five inches long, lanceolate, more or less acuminate at both ends, nearly sessile, the margin cili- ated. Peduncles axillary, opposite, leafy, axillary, generally pendent; or they may be called flowering branches: the blossoms forming terminal, leafy, trichotomous cymes. Calyx of five, erect, close-placed sepals, lanceolate, acuminate, keeled and winged on the back. Corolla funnel-shaped, yellow, long; the tube narrow at the base, gradually enlarging upwards, and terminating in a deeply five-lobed limb; the segments oblong, acuminate, spreading. Stamens five. Filaments longer than the tube, thus exserted. Anthers oblong, acute. Style larger than the stamens. Stigma capi- tate, two-lobed. © Thrifty Whiskers A rare plant in our gardens. It was introduced, however, to Kew, as early as 1793, by Capt. Bligh, of H. M. S. Provi- dence, and then lost to our collections till 1825, when it was published in the Botanical Register from plants in the Nursery of Messrs. Lee and Kennedy at Hammersmith. Again, it seems to have been wanting to our stoves till the summer of 1844, when it flowered in that of His Grace the Duke of Northumberland at Syon, and that of Kew, to both which places the seeds were sent by their Botanical Collector, Mr. Purdie.

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