Qualea
(the native name in Guiana). ORD. Vochysiaceae. A genus comprising about twenty-five species of curious, stove, resinous trees, natives of Brazil and Guiana. Flowers yellow, pink, or blue, rather large, disposed in lateral and terminal racemes or panicles; sepals five, free; petal one, unguiculate, obovate or obcordate. Leaves opposite or verticillate, coriaceous, petiolate, costate; petioles biglandulose at base. The only species in cultivation-Q. rosea-thrives in a compost of peat and leaf mould. Propagation may be effected by seeds, sown on a hotbed; or by cuttings of half-ripened shoots, inserted in sandy soil, under a bell glass, in bottom heat.
Q. rosea (rose-coloured). fl., petal, as well as the large segment of the calyx, white on the outside, rose-coloured on the inside, entire; spur shorter than the calyx. l. elliptic, acuminate, glabrous on both surfaces. h. 30ft. Guiana. (A. G. 1.) SYN. Q. violacea.
Q. violacea (violaceous). A synonym of Q. rosea.