family, especially in the Alpine regions, the most lovely of them 
have their representatives in tropical countries, in the charming 
species of Zisianthus in South America, and in those of Zuchia- 
danthus m Madagascar. A clever drawing by Mrs. Ellis (from 
which our plate is copied), accompanied by a recent flowering 
specimen, was sent from the garden at Hoddesdon in October, 
1858, raised by Mr. Ellis from seeds brought home with him. 
The five species of this genus hitherto described by authors, 
have been considered to have white flowers, but this was only 
inferred from the withered corollas in dried specimens. ‘They 
are probably all purple or blue-purple, and of a peculiar rich 
tint not easily expressed by art. 
Descr. A low, suffruticose plant; that is, woody below, all 
the leafy and flowering branches being herbaceous, and these are 
tetragonous, glabrous, as in the whole plant, dichotomously 
branched. Leaves in remote, opposite pairs, one to one and a 
half inches long, oval, acute, three- to five-nerved, spreading hori- 
zontally. Cyme terminal, generally twice dichotomous, and near 
to these is also an axillary pair of flowers. Pedicel shorter than 
the leaf. Calya oblong, with five linear, subulate, carinated lobes, 
from the back of each of which a winged angle extends to the 
base of the calyx. Corolla hypocrateriform, with a very long, 
slender, white ttibe, two to three inches long, a little enlarged 
upwards ; /imb spreading horizontally, rich purple, of five imbri- 
cating, broad-ovate, acute Jobes; in the faux are four, short, 
ovate, acute ¢eeth, alternating with the segments of the corolla, 
which have been overlooked by authors who have seen only dried 
Specimens. Sfamens inserted at the base of the inflated portion 
of the tube, quite included ; filaments short. Anthers sagittate, 
acute, apiculate. Ovary subfusiform, surrounded by a ring of 
small, scale-like glands. Style filiform, shorter than the tube of 
the corolla. Stigma ovate, bipartite, lobes erect. 
Fig. 1. Tube of the corolla laid o i i 
pen, showing the stamens, style, and stigma, 
mt the scales in the faux. 2. Calyx with pistil. 3. Calyx iaid. open, showing 
the pistil and glandular ming. 4. Ovary cut through transversely :—magnified. 
