Thibaudia
(named in honour of Thiebaut de Berneaud, Secretary of the Linnean Society of Paris, and a botanical writer). ORD. Vacciniaceae. A genus to which only a couple of species are referred by Bentham and Hooker; they are very elegant, stove shrubs, natives of the Andes of New Grenada and Peru. Flowers scarlet, pedicellate, numerous, in axillary racemes; calyx tube continuous with the pedicel, terete, the limb short, obtusely five-lobed or five-toothed; corolla tubular, terete, the limb of five small, sub-erect lobes; stamens ten, as long as the corolla tube; pedicels bracteate at base, and sometimes bracteolate. Leaves alternate, persistent, petiolate or sub-sessile, coriaceous, penninerved, entire. The species thrive in a compost of turfy loam, peat, and sand. Cuttings will readily root in sand or soil, with or without the protection of a glass. Other species formerly included here will now be found under Proclesia, Psammisia, Themistoclesia, &c. T. floribunda (bundle-flowered). fl. glabrous, on very long pedicels; racemes solitary, nearly 2in. long, with imbricated bracts at base. l. oblong-lanceolate, acuminate, reticulate-veined. Branches nearly terete, smooth, greyish. New Grenada.
T. pichinchensis (Pichinchan). fl. seven lines long; calyx furfuraceous-tomentose, the teeth mucronulate; corolla glabrous; racemes shorter than the leaves. l. very shortly petiolate, oval-oblong or sub-lanceolate, obtuse and acuminate, rounded at base, 3in. to 4in. long. h. 6ft. to 12ft. Pichincha, 1849.