+ Tas. 4403. 
SIPHOCAMPYLOS MANETTLAFLORUS. 
Manettia-flowered Siphocampylos. 
Nat. Ord. LoBELtace#.— PENTANDRIA MoNocyNiA. 
Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Tan. 4178.) 
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SIPHOCAMPYLOS manettiaflorus ; erectus humili§ suffruticosus, foliis brevissime 
petiolatis oblongo-ovatis obscure serratis reticulatis supra nitidis, pedunculis 
solitariis axillaribus unifloris bibracteatis folio 3—4-plo brevioribus, flore 
longitudine foliorum, ovario turbinato-sulcato, calycis laciniis subulatis 
serratis, corolla tubulosz lateraliter compresse (bicoloris) limbo subsquali 
(flayo) laciniis erecto-patentibus ovato-lanceolatis. 
SIPHOCAMPYLOs nitidus. Hortulan. (non Pohl.) 
This very pretty plant, for the bright red and yellow corollas 
contrast well with the glossy dark green foliage, comes to the 
English gardens by way of Belgium, and we are indebted for the 
possession of the species to our friend Mr. Low of the Clapton 
Nursery. It is probably derived from New Grenada, and was 
received with the name of Sivhocampylos nitidus: but this appel- 
lation is, we should think, given to it in gardens in ignorance of 
the existence of a S. nitidus of Pohl (from Brazil), with which 
this has nothing to do. It is a free flowerer, and it has been 
in blossom all the spring, summer, and autumn in our stove. 
Descr. A small, erect, firm-growing plant, not exceeding a 
foot in height, suffruticose, leafy, branched. eaves alternate, 
on short petioles or nearly sessile, from one and a half to nearly 
_ two inches long, rather rigid, oblongo-ovate, obscurely serrated, 
reticulated, glabrous and glossy above, more rugose from_reticu- 
lations and somewhat hoary beneath. Peduncles from the axils 
of the leaves, short, not one third as long as the leaf (together with 
the flower, a little longer than the leaf), bearing two small bracts 
near the middle. Calyz a little downy ; its tube, including the 
inferior ovary, turbinate: the segments erecto-patent, remotely 
Serrated, subulate, one-fourth the length of the corolla. Corolla 
slightly curved, tubular for the greater part of its length, but 
singularly compressed laterally, two-coloured, red for two-thirds 
OCTOBER Ist, 1848. 
