Columellia
(named in honour of L. Junius Moderatus Columella, a native of Cadiz, in Spain, author of one of the most valuable works on Roman agriculture; he was born about the beginning of the Christian era). SYN. Uluxia. The only genus of ORD. Columelliaceoe. It contains only two species, one of which is not yet introduced to cultivation. C. oblonga is a greenhouse evergreen shrub. It thrives in a mixture of loam, peat, leaf soil, and sand; and half-ripened young cuttings will strike readily in the same compost, under a hand glass, with a gentle heat.
C. oblonga (oblong). fl. yellow, terminal, on short peduncles; corolla rotate, with a five-lobed concave equal limb; corymbs leafy. l. oblong, veiny, toothed at top, attenuated at the base, shining and green above, but silky and glaucous beneath, 1in. to 2in. long. Branchlets clothed with silky down, compressed between the internodes. h. 20ft. Andes of Peru and Ecuador, 1875. (B. M. 6183.)