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CHANOSTOMA polyanthum. 
Many-flowered Chenostome. 
DIDYNAMIA ANGIOSPERMIA. 
Nat. ord. ScRoPHULARIACEX. (Fısworts, Vegetable Kingdom, 
p. 68.) 
CHANOSTOMA, Benth.— Calyx 5-partitus. Corolla decidua, infun- 
dibuliformis vel subhypocraterimorpha, fauce plus minus ampliata, rarius 
tubo brevissimo subcampanulata, limbi laciniis integris. Stamina 7, antheris 
consimilibus faucem sequantibus vel exsertis. Herbee suffruticesve Austro- 
Africani. Folia fere omnia opposita, dentata vel rarius integerrima, floralia 
conformia vel bracteeformia, a pedicello libera. Flores axillares vel racemosi, 
pedicellati, siccitate non nigricantes. Capsule glabre, septicide bivalves, 
valvulis breviter bifidis.—Species plures variant caule annuo vel perenni basi 
frutescente.— Bentham in DC. Prodr. x. 303. 
C. polyanthum (Bentham in DC. Prodr. x. 354); herbaceum vel suffruti- 
cosum basi ramosissimum, ramis apice pubescentibus paniculatis, foliis 
ovatis dentatis basi cuneatis supremis oblongis glabris vel subtus canes- 
centibus, racemis laxis, calycibus hispidis, corollae infundibuliformis tubo 
calycem vix superante. 
A small spreading suffruticose half-hardy plant, of very 
pretty appearance, requiring the same treatment as Verbenas, 
and like them well suited for bedding out in summer. It is 
easily increased either by seeds or by cuttings, grows freely 
in any good rich garden soil, and flowers abundantly from 
July to September. 
About the middle of August, a quantity of young plants 
should be struck from cuttings, and afterwards kept in an 
airy greenhouse during the winter, so as to be ready for 
the next year's consumption, for turning out into the open 
border. 
The genus Chenostoma is an offset from the old Manuleas, 
and consists of a considerable number of Cape species, most 
of which are plants of little beauty. They are known from 
