Tas. 4216. 
ALLOPLECTUS picurovs. 
Two-coloured Alloplectus. 
Nat. Ord. GESNERIACE#.—DIDYNAMIA ANGIOSPERMIA. 
Gen. Char. Calyx liber coloratus 5-sepalus, sepalis imbricatis varie basi con- 
nexis, 2 interioribus. Corolla tubulosa v. claviformis rectiuscula, limbo brevi 
5-lobo aut 5-dentato. Stamina didynama cum quinti postici rudimento e basi 
tubi. Stigma capitato-infundibuliforme. -dunulus hypogynus in glandulam 
posticam tumens. Capsula baccans coriacea 1-locularis 2-valvis. Semina co 
oblonga.—Frutices Australi-Americani scandentes radicantes. Caules teretes aut 
subtetragoni flexiles, epidermide nitida, Rami oppositi. Folia opposita hine inde 
inequalia petiolata pinguicula, sepe pubentia, interdum subtus rubentia. Gem- 
matio nuda. Flores avillares, aggregati, rarius solitarit, bracteis rubro-coloratis 
instructi aut nudi. Corolle flave. DC. 
AtLop.ectus dichrous : fruticosus erectus, foliis ovato-oblongis acutis integerri- 
mis substrigillosis, floribus axillaribus subsessilibus aggregatis, sepalis atro- 
sanguineis triangularibus subdenticulatis glabris, corolle hirsutissimee clavate 
(flavee) limbo erectiusculo. 
Atiopiectus dichrous, De Cand. Prodr. v. 7. p. 546. 
Bestertia dichrous, Spreng. Syst. Veget. v. 2. p. 840. 
Besterta bicolor, Schott, in Flora, 1821, p.197 (non iB: &:). 
ALLopLectvs Schottii, Donn, Gard. Dict. v. 4. p. 655. 
Attop.ectus sparsiflorus, Mart. Nov. Gen. et Sp. Bras. 0.3. p. 55. 2. 223. f. 1. 
Hypocyrta discolor, Lindl. Bot. Reg. 1845. Suppl. p. 19. 
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Of this singular stove-plant, I think it will be found that the 
above synonymes are correct. To this country the plant was 
introduced from Brazil by T..G. Lorraine, Esq.,and has been distri- 
buted under the name of Zypocyrta discolor of Lindley, in the work 
above quoted. We have frequently had occasion to remark how 
very ill-defined are the genera of the Gesnertaceous plants : still 
we think this can hardly be referred to Hypocyrta of Martius ; 
but rather to Al/oplectus of the same author, destined to receive the 
well-known Besleria coccinea, Linn., and the other allied species, 
which have the margins of some of the sepals variously complicate 
or plicate (whence the name aos, diverse, and mréxew, to plait or 
fold). t seems with equal certainty to be the 2. dichrous of 
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MARCH Ist, 1846. 
