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STEPHANOPHYSUM Bark1e1. 
Dr. Baikie’s Stephanophysum. 
Nat. Ord. ACANTHACEH,—DIDYNAMIA GYMNOSPERMIA. 
Gen. Char. Calyx 5-partitus, Jaciniis angustis eequalibus. Corolla tubo brevi, 
faucibus in plerisque campanulato-inflatis deorsum ventricosis aliis ovalibus ob- 
longisve cequalibus ; Zimdi laciniis brevibus sequalibus erectis (v. magis minusve 
patentibus). Stamina 4, didynama, faucibus inserta, corollam plerumque eequantia ; 
filamenta per paria basi connata; anthere biloculares, Zocu/is parallelis, lineares, basi 
sagittate, demum recurve. Stigma. bilabiatum, labiis planis acuminatis, supe- 
riore breviore. Capsula a basi ad medium contracta, elocularis, hine bilocularis, 
4—12-sperma. Semina plana, orbiculata, vetinaculis fulcrata.—Herbe Americe 
(et Africe) tropica, foliis plus minus dentatis (v. integerrimis). Cyme umbellares, 
laterales, pedunculate, 4-fide, abortu bifide, radiis difidis, bracteis parvis subulatis, 
bracteolis nuilis: abortu evadunt pedunculi uniflori, sub flore bibracteati, vel flores 
terminales, aggregati, subracemosi, pedicellis ebracteatis. Corolla digitaliformis, 
coccinea. Nees in De Cand. 
SrepHaNnopnysum Baikiei ; suffrutex? glaber, ramis 4-angulatis, foliis ovato- 
lanceolatis acuminatis integerrimis basi in petiolum longum attenuatis, 
panicula composita terminali multiflora, calyce piloso-glanduloso, corollis 
elongatis infundibuliformi-tubulosis curvatis lateraliter compressis basi an- 
gusto-attenuatis medio subventricoso, laciniis patenti-recurvis, glandula hy- 
pogyna magna cupuliformi carnosa, anthers loculis basi brevi-calcaratis. 
One of the many highly interesting plants lately sent home 
from the present Niger Expedition by its successful Comman- 
der Dr. Baikie, and collected by the indefatigable naturalist, 
Mr. Barter. Seeds accompanied the dried specimens, and these , 
have germinated, and the plants flowered in great beauty during 
the winter months of 1866-9. The atracéure ss 10 every coi" 
tial particular so much of that of Stephanophysum, Pohl (of which 
however the thirteen species described by Nees are all South 
American), that I can have no hesitation in referring the plants 
to that genus. 
Duscr. Our plant is between two and three feet high, her- 
baceous at present, but will probably prove to be suffruticose, 
erecto-patent 
erect, branched with opposite, square or tetragonous, 
APRIL Ist, 1859. 
