Tab. 5428. 

 TRICHANTHA minor. 



Smaller -leaved Trichantha. 



Nat. Ord. Gesneriace.e. — Didynamia Angiospermia. 



Gen. Char. Calyx inferus, coloratus, profundc quinquepartitus ; Mis subpal- 

 mato-profunde-pinnatifidis, laciniis elongatis linearibus ciliatis. Corolla tubu- 

 losa, hinc subventricosa, crinito-hirsuta, supra basin constricta ; Umbo parvo, ob- 

 liquo, 4-lobo, lobo superiore bifido ; Mis cum appendiculis claviformibus paolo 

 infra sinus clavatis, luteis, alteraantibus, apice setoso-stellatis. Stamina 4, didy- 

 nama, subinclusa; antheris per pariaconniventibus. Ovarium superum, ovatum, 

 hinc basi glandula hypogyna, magna. Stylus filiformis, longitudine staminum ; 

 stigma bifidum. — Frutices scandentes, radicantes, Caricasani, epiphyti, pilosi. 

 Folia subsucculenta, camosa, ovata, sen obovata, opposita, unico multo mhiore. 

 Flores hirsutissimi (pills articulatis) , axillares, aggregate, pulcherrime picti. Pe- 

 dunculi taiijlori, sursum curvati. Hook. 



Trichantha minor; foliis ovatis acuminatis integerrimis ciliatis supra demum 



glabriusculis, caule appresso-piloso vel glabro. 

 Trichantha minor. Rook. Ic. PI. t. 666. Walp. Repert. Bot. Syst. p. 395. 



Hanst. Conspect. Gesneriac. p. 216. t. 2./. 63. 



This very remarkable and very beautiful plant, which, to- 

 gether with a closely allied species, constitute a new genus of 

 GesneriacecB, has been hitherto only known in the herbarium, 

 from specimens collected by William Lobb in Columbia, South 

 America, and supplied to us by the late Mr. Veitch, of the 

 Exeter Nursery, and they were both figured by us in the seventh 

 volume of our ' Icones Plantarum.' To our great gratification, 

 we received in November of the past year 1863, living speci- 

 mens in full flower of one of the two species, T. minor, from 

 the present Messrs. Veitch, of Exeter and Chelsea Nurseries ; 

 and beautiful as are many of the Gesneriaceous plants, long fa- 

 vourites in our stoves and greenhouses, none perhaps exceeds 

 this in elegance of form and structure, and beauty of colour. 

 These living plants were introduced through Mr. R. Pearce, the 

 energetic collector for the Messrs. Veitch, in Tropical America. 



FEBRUARY 1ST, 1864. 



