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/ESCHYNANTHUS miniatus. 
Vermilion ZEschynanth. 
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DIDYNAMIA ANGIOSPERMIA. 
Nat. ord. GEsNERACEA. (GESNERADS, Vegetable Kingdom, p. 671.) 
ASCHYNANTHUS, Jack.— Botanical Register, 1841. t. 28. 
JE. miniatus; prostratus, foliis coriaceis ovalibus utrinque acutis integerrimis, 
pedunculis axillaribus 3-floris, calyce patulo cyathiformi brevi obsolete 
lobato basi circumscisso, corollee tomentose labio superiore bilobo in- 
feriore sequaliter tripartito lobis obtusis. 
Asch. radicans, Wallich Cat. herb. Ind. no. 798. nec Jackii. 
Trichosporum radicans, Blume Bijdr. 764. ? 
"The researches of Mr. Veitch's collector in Java, have 
brought to our knowledge some remarkable new /Eschynanths, 
which had escaped the previous observation of persons em- 
ployed in Horticulture. Of these the finest is that lately 
figured in the Botanical Magazine under the name of Æ. 
Lobbianus, with long, deep purple, shaggy calyxes. Another 
is the species now produced. 
This plant is readily distinguished by its very short, dish- 
shaped calyx, which has scarcely any distinct marginal lobes, 
and its vivid vermilion-coloured flowers, with a yellow star in 
the throat. It yields to none in beauty, and is much finer than 
Vanden Bosch's ZEschynanth, lately imported from Belgium. 
It seems to be identical with the Sincapore plant, formerly 
distributed by Dr. Wallich under the name of 7E. radicans ; 
but it cannot be the species of Dr. Jack, which has villous 
leaves, and a tubular shaggy calyx, with a 5-lobed mouth. 
It is probably, however, the Trichosporum radicans of Blume, 
a common Java plant, which M. Alphonse DeCandolle has 
suspected to be a different species drom that of Sumatra. 
(See Prodr. ix. 262. no. 13.) 
It is one of the prettiest plants in cultivation, and, like 
all its race, lends itself willingly to the care of any one who 
