Taligalea
(said to be the native name in Guiana). Amasonia is now the correct name of this genus. ORD. Verbenaceae. A genus comprising six species (which may be reduced to four) of stove sub-shrubs, natives of tropical America. Flowers yellow or sulphur-coloured, racemose or panicled; calyx coloured, loosely campanulate, membranous, five-cleft; corolla tube elongated, straight or incurved at base, the limb five-cleft, sub-bilabiate, with short, spreading or reflexed lobes. Leaves alternate, toothed or rarely entire; upper ones few, small. For culture of the only species introduced, see Clerodendron. T. punicea (reddish-brown). fl. pale sulphur-yellow, with large, bright red bracts; racemes nodding, clothed with red-purple hairs. May and June. l. slender, 6in. to 12in. long, oblong-or elliptic-lanceolate, shortly acuminate, unequally toothed. Stem erect, simple or slightly branched. h. 2ft. to 3ft. Brazil, 1884. The correct name of this plant is Amasonia calycina. (B. M. 6915.) SYN. Amasonia punicea (Gn. xxvii. 130; R. G. 1886, 337).