Tab. 4286. 
SIPHOCAMPYLOS microstoma. 
Small-mouthed Siphocampylos. 
Nat. Ord. Lobeliaceae. —Pentandria Monogynia. 
Gen. Char. {Vide supra. Tab. 4178). 
SiPHOCAMPYLos (Eusiphocampylos) microstoma-, suffruticosus erectus ramosus, 
ramis teretibus, foliis alternis brevi-petiolatis ovatis acutis glanduloso-serratis 
glabris, floribus umbellatis tenninalibus fobosis, calycis tubo turbinato 
angulato brevi, laciniis longioribus linearibus obtusis patentibus, corollae 
pubescentis tubo elongato clavato superne ventricoso laterabter compresso 
angulato ore contracto, lobis subaequalibus parvis lineari-obtusis conniven- 
tibus pilosis, staminibus subinclusis, antberis 3 inf. barbatis. 
Among many fine species of Siphocampylos, detected by Mr. 
Purdie in New Grenada, few, if any, can vie with this, in the size 
of the flowers and richness of their colour. It seems also to 
produce its blossoms early and freely, and they continue a long 
time in perfection; so much so, that though our plants were only 
raised from seed twelve months ago, they have been gay with 
flowers throughout the whole autumn and winter months, and 
have proved a great acquisition to om* stoves, during this 
dreary season. In the summer, a greenhouse wiU be a better 
situation for it, and from the successions of buds that are 
forming, it seems to be one of those plants which one may 
reckon on having in bloom, at all times of the year. Some of 
our plants have the stems and branches deeply tinged with pur¬ 
ple ; and the corollas are occasionally of a deeper and sometimes 
a paler scarlet, always produced in a compact leafy terminal 
umbel. 
Descr, Perennial. Stems erect, rounded, branched, two to 
three feet high, glabrous. Leasees alternate, petiolate (petioles 
short), ovate, acute, glabrous (the younger ones slightly downy), 
serrated, each serrature tipped with, or rather constituted, by a 
pale gland. Floivers umbellate; that is, they seem each to spring 
from the axil of a leaf, which then becomes so reduced in size, they 
forming so compact a mass, that the foliage here may rather be 
