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LANKESTERIA parviflora. 
Small-flowered Lankesteria. 
DIDYNAMIA ANGIOSPERMIA. 
Nat. ord. ACANTHACEA. (ACANTHADS, Veg. King. p. 678. ined.) 
LANKESTERIA. Spice breves, imbricate, axillares. Calyx 5-phyllus, 
sequalis, bibracteatus. Corolla tubo gracili, limbo secundo quinquepartito. 
Stamina 2, sterilibus 0, semiexserta ; anthere biloculares, muticae. Stigma 
simplex, capitatum. Capsula pedicellata, loculicido-bivalvis, abortu di- 
sperma. Semina [tenuia] plana, pilis [obscurè spiraliter striatis tecta et] 
marginata, retinaculis uncinatis subtensa.—Lindl. in Bot. Reg. Dec. 1, 1845, 
misc. no. 83, 
L. parviflora ; foliis ovatis obtusiusculis, corolle tubo calyce haud multům 
longiore.— Lindl. l. c. 
This genus, which was proposed in the last number of the 
last volume of this work, was named after Dr. Edwin Lan- 
kester, F.R.S., a gentleman whose knowledge of botanical 
science reguires no eulogy ; it is sufficient to state that he is 
the author of the Botanical articles in the latter volumes of 
the Penny Magazine, of various Botanical contributions to 
periodical publications, and is now engaged in translating 
into English Schleiden's learned Introduction to Botany. 
Lankesteria is a genus of Acanthads, allied to Eranthemum, 
from which it differs in the absence of sterile stamens, and in 
the capsule containing but two seeds. Chameranthemum is 
distinguished by having four stamens, a nearly egual limb to 
the corolla, one-celled anthers, and a 4-seeded capsule. 
Two species are known : the present, a native of the west 
coast of Africa, whence it was brought by Mr. Whitfield; and 
another, with more shaggy branches, sharper pointed leaves, 
and larger flowers, whose tube is three times as long as the 
calyx. The latter may be called the long-flowered, and thus 
defined : 
March, 1846. F 
