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APHELANDRA aurantiaca. 
Orange Aphelandra. 
DIDYNAMIA ANGIOSPERMIA. 
Nat. ord. ACANTHACEE. 
-~ APHELANDRA, R. Br. Calyx quinquepartitus, inæqualis. Corolla 
hypogyna, ringens, labio superiore subfornicato, bidentato, inferioris tri- 
partiti laciniis lateralibus multo minoribus. Stamina 4, corollæ tubo inserta, 
inclusa, didynama; antheræ uniloculares, muticæ. Ovarium biloculare, 
loculis biovulatis. Stylus simplex; stigma bifidum. Capsula teretiuscula, 
bilocularis, tetrasperma, loculicide bivalvis, valvis medio septiferis. Semina 
compressa, retinaculis subtensa Frutices Americe tropice ; foliis oppo- 
sitis, spicis axillaribus et terminalibus tetragonis, bracteis oppositis, sub- 
nan bracteolis angustis, corollis speciosis, rubieundis.—Endl. gen. 
A. aurantiaca ; foliis oblongis glabris basi undulatis in petiolum brevem de- 
currentibus, spieis simplieibus tetragonis, bracteis ovatis acuminatis 
serratis, corollæ laciniis ovatis acutissimis lateralibus duplo brevioribus. 
Hesemasandra aurantiaca, Hort. 
This is the handsomest stove shrub that has been intro- 
duced for a long time, and in the estimation of cultivators 
must class with Ixora coccinea, Aphelandra cristata, the 
Hindsias, Jacquinia aurantiaca, and other front-rank species. 
It was exhibited at a late meeting of the Horticultural 
Society, by Mr. Henderson of Pine Apple Place, under the 
title of Hesemasandra aurantiaca, a name not to be found in 
any Botanical books in our possession. It is probably some 
error, and the word may have been Hemiandra (half anther), 
in allusion to each anther having but one lobe, as is shewn at 
fig. 1; but Hemiandra is really a totally different plant. 
Can it be Schrader's Synandra amena, the Aphelandra 
ignea of Nees von Esenbeck? concerning which we find 
nothing beyond the names in Dietrich's Synopsis plantarum. 
We have only seen it on the occasion just alluded to, but 
we could not then perceive any thing to separate it from the 
March, 1845. F 
