Tas. 4236. 
JESCHINANTHUS purRPuRASCENS. 
Purplish-green ischinanthus. 
Nat. Ord. DipyMOcARPE%.—DIDYNAMIA ANGIOSPERMIA. 
Gen. Char. Calyx ventricoso-tubulosus apice 5-lobus, 3-fidus vel 3-partitus, 
lobis equalibus. Corolla tubulosa incurva limbo obliquo subineequaliter 5-fido 
subbilabiato.| |Stamina 4 antherifera didynama sepe exserta cum rudimento 
amg Loculi antherarum paralleli. Ovarium annulo cyathiformi basi cinctum. 
'ylus filiformis. Stigma integrum depresso-concavum. Capsula siliqueeformis 
elongata acuminata valvis duabus strictis, placentis bifidis bilamellatis margine 
revolutis quasi 4-locularis. Semina plurima minuta oblonga pendula utrinque 
setis longis paucis aut solitariis appendiculata.—Suffrutices indict pseudo-parasi- 
tic scandentes sepius radicantes. Caules teretes geniculate glabri. Folia opposita 
petiolata carnosa integerrima sepius glabra. Pediculi terminales aut axillares uni- - 
bi- rarius pauciflori. Cor. rubra (rarius virides), De Cand. 
AscHINaNtHUS purpurascens ; foliis oblongo-lanceolatis acuminatis sinuato-den- 
tatis obscure venosis glabris, floribus fasciculatis axillaribus, bracteis minutis 
subulatis, calycis tubo brevi laciniis subulatis corollam subsequantibus, 
corolle limbo fimbriato, staminibus longe exsertis. 
Alscuinantuvs purpurascens. Hassk. Cat. Hort. Bot. Bogor. ed, 2. p. 154. 
Alscurnantuvs albida. Alph. De Cand. Prodr. v. 9. p. 262. 
Brenonta albida. Bl. Cat. Hort. Bot. Bogor. ed. 1. p. 87. 
TricHosporum albidum. Nees, in Bot. Zeit. 1825, p. 144. 
Lysronorus albidus. Bl. Bjdr. p. 765. 
This little-known plant has been unfortunate in the number of 
generic names it has received, and scarcely less so in the map- 
propriateness of its specific names. In the first edition of the 
‘Catalogue Plant. Horti Botanici Bogoriensis it received the 
name of “ albida,” of Blume; in the second edition, the author 
(Hasskarl) observes, “nomen incaute creatum, folia subtus in 
nervo atropurpurea et preeterea purpureo-maculata, ceeterum 
pallide viridia nec (viva) albida”; and then he gives the scarcely 
more happy one of “ purpurascens. It is a species readily dis- 
tinguished from the rest of the genus by its sinuato-toothed 
leaves, by the dark purple-brown prominent mid-rib on the 
under side, by the long, purple, subulate lacinize of the calyx, 
JUNE Ist, 1846. 
