4250. 
ALLOPLECTUS repens. 
Creeping Alloplectus. 
Nat. Ord. GesnERIACE®.—DIDYNAMIA ANGIOSPERMIA. 
Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Tas. 4216.) 
ALLOPLECTUS repens ; hic illic pubescens, suffruticosus, repens, foliis late ovatis 
grosse crenato-scrratis subcarnosis brevi-petiolatis, pedunculis axillaribus 
solitariis unifloris petiolum Jonge superantibus, sepalis late ovatis acutis 
maculatis patentibus, corolle parce pilose tubo infundibuliformi curvato, 
limbo 4-lobo, lobo superiore latiore bifido, reliquis ovatis patentibus. 
A-pretty Gesneriaceous plant, probably scandent upon the 
trunks of trees and rooting among the dead bark and moss. It 
is a stove plant, native of the damp woods in the ascent of the 
Sierra Nivada, St. Martha, and was thence sent to the Royal 
Gardens of Kew by our collector, Mr. Purdie. A comparison of 
this with the figure of Alloplectus dichrous, at Tab. 4216. will 
show that the essential characters of the two are the same as to 
genus. It flowers in February. 
Descr. A small shrubby plant, with trailing stems and branches, 
and throwing out roots from between the pairs of leaves, so as 
to constitute a creeping stem. Leaves rather small, ovate, fleshy, 
coarsely serrated, hairy or glabrous. Petiole much shorter than 
the leaf. Peduncle shorter than the leaf, but longer than the 
petiole, axillary, single-flowered, dark purple, four-angular up- 
wards. Calyz very \arge and loose, spreading and standing off, 
as it were, from the tube of the corolla, of five broadly ovate, 
acute, almost leafy segments, pale green blotched with purple. 
Corolla yellow tinged with red, twice as long as the calyx. Tube 
curved, funnel-shaped, swollen at the base ; /imé of four, spreading 
Segments, of which the uppermost one is broad and bifid, the 
rest ovate and entire. Stamens four, didynamous (with a minute 
scale, the rudiment of a fifth), inserted near the base of the tube 
of the corolla, and each pair united by the base of the filaments. 
AUGUST Ist, 1846. 
