S. lantanifolius is a species of De Candolle, taken up 

 from specimens collected in Caracas by M. Vargas. 

 Mr. IVTKoy has obligingly sent us from Liege the plant 

 here figured, under that name, and it appeared to differ in 

 no respect from De Candolle's description, save in the 

 very indistinct pubescence., whence I have preferred to 

 consider it as a variety. It is a good looking stove plant, 

 flowering in the early spring months, and is readily 

 increased by cuttings. 



Descr. A rather weak-growing, but erect shrub, with 

 many rounded branches, the young ones herbaceous, pubes- 

 cent. Leaves on short petioles, ovato-lanceolate, acuminate, 

 dentato-serrate at the margins, from the apex almost to 

 the very base somewhat wrinkled above, beneath slightly 

 downy, with prominent veins. The striking peculiarity in 

 this plant is in the inflorescence which constitutes a rnany- 

 flowered corymbose raceme. Pedicels elongated, slender, 

 each subtended by a linear-lanceolate bractea, much 

 shorter than the pedicel. Calyx-tube short, turbinate, 

 sulcated ; the limb of five erecto-patent, broadly-subulate 

 segments. Corolla four or five times as long as the calyx, 

 tubular, curved, laterally compressed, constricted above 

 the base, the limb two-lipped, the lower one cut into three, 

 reflexed, linear-acute segments, the upper into two straight 

 ones. Anthers a little longer than the corolla, but slightly 

 protruded beyond the upper lip. 



Fig. 1. Anthers and Stigma: — magnified. 



