Norantea
(altered from Gonora-antegri, the Caribbean name of N. guianensis). SYNS. Ascium, Schwartzia. ORD. Ternstromiaceae. A genus consisting of about eight species of handsome stove epiphytal or climbing shrubs, rarely arborescent, confined to tropical America. Flowers disposed in terminal, elongated, many-flowered racemes; petals and sepals five, imbricated; pedicels jointed at the base, furnished with petiolate, cucullate, or saccate bracts. Leaves coriaceous, entire. The species (of which the two here described are probably the only ones yet introduced) thrive in a compost of loam and peat. Propagated by ripened cuttings, which root freely in sand, under a glass, in heat.
N. braziliensis (Brazilian). fl. green in the middle, but white on the margins, racemose, on long peduncles; bracts scarlet. l. obovate, stalked. h. 6ft. Brazil, 1820. Climber.
N. guianensis (Guiana). fl. violet, nearly sessile, on long spikes; bracts large, bladdery or cucullate, scarlet. l. oblong, mucronate, coriaceous. Branches red, throwing out roots, by which it supports itself on trees near which it grows. Guiana, 1818. A beautiful species. (A. G. 220.)