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Tas. 4371. 
ALLOPLECTUS concotor. 
Whole-coloured Alloplectus. 
Nat. Ord. GrsnERIACEH,—DipyNaMIA ANGIOSPERMIA. 
Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Tas. 4216.) 
ALLOPLECTUS concolor ; fruticosus erectus, foliis oblongo-ellipticis utrinque 
acuminatis integerrimis glabris, floribus (calyce corollaque) axillaribus sub- 
sessilibus aggregatis concoloribus rubris, sepalis triangularibus integerrimis 
glabris, corollee hirsutissimee clavatee tubo superne insigniter ventricoso, ore 
valde obliquo, limbo erecto-patente. 
An undoubted congener with <l/oplectus diochrous, (supra 
Tab. 4216,) having the same habit, but smaller flowers, calyx 
and corolla uniformly red, the latter much more ventricose 
above at the upper part of the tube, with the mouth more 
oblique. It is, we presume, an inhabitant of Brazil, having been 
sent to Kew by Mr. Galeotti in 1846, under the garden name of 
A. eriocalyzx, without any indication of its locality. 
Duscr. Stems about two feet high, shrubby, but succulent, 
terete, scarcely branched, green tinged with purple. Leaves 
opposite, petaloid, thick, fleshy, between oblong and elliptical, 
entire, acuminated at both ends, obliquely penninerved, glabrous, 
dark green above, pale beneath. /owers axillary, aggregated, 
sessile. Calyx lax, red, deeply cut into five triangular, 
Spreading, waved segments or sepals. Corolla inserted laterally 
at the base, thus forming a blunt spur, red, very hairy (pale at 
the base); the éwée singularly ventricose above on the upper side, - 
so that the outline of that side almost represents the letter S: 
the mouth small, very oblique; the mé of five small, rounded, 
MAY Ist, 1848. Buy 
