Tas. 5131. 
AESCHYNANTHUS corprrouivs. 
Heart-leaved Aischynanthus. 
Nat. Ord. Cyrranprace®.—DIDYNAMIA ANGIOSPERMIA. 
Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Tas. 5031.) 
AlscHYNANTHUS cordifolius ; caule terete scandente glabro, foliis late ovatis 
giabris integerrimis caruosis, petiolis brevibus semiteretibus, floribus ter- 
minalibus vel in axillis binis sursum curvatis glanduloso-pubescentibus, ca- 
lyce basi cum pedicello articulato turbinato apice brevi-quinquelobo lobis co- 
rolle appressis, corollz velutinge coccinex: fauce intus atra strigosa, tubo ca- 
lyce vix triplo longiore superne curvato, limbo obliquo subeequaliter quadri- 
lobo bilabiato, labiis late ovatis concavis superiore apice bifido inferiore 
trilobo, stamiuibus styloque labii superioris longitudine. 
This is another of the many fine and highly ornamental tro- 
pical plants imported by Messrs. Veitch and Sons, of the Nur- 
series, Exeter and Chelsea, from Borneo, through their collector 
Mr. Thomas Lobb. Its nearest affinity is doubtless with our 
isch. tricolor (Tab. 5031), from the same country; but that 
has much smaller leaves, a shorter, broader, spreading calyx- : 
tube (not at all appressed to the corolla), a differently formed 
oi differently marked corolla, and a very different hypogynous 
gland. ; 
Duscr. Like the Zschynanthus tricolor above mentioned, 
this has the appearance of being a climber ands an epiphyte. 
Its branches are moderately stout, terete, quite ee 
dent. Zeaves two inches to two and a half inches long, oe ate, 
sometimes approaching to ovate, thick, fleshy, quite gla aa. 
shortly and obtusely acuminate, very obscurely penniveined, 
slightly channelled in the middle above, the margin very ema o 
and a little reflexed; costa prominent beneath: the a sil 3 
very dark, almost glossy-green above, pale beneath. Peh 
semiterete, short, scarcely half an inch long. lowers large, 
beautiful, on short two- to three-flowered peduncles in the axils 
AUGUST IsT, 1859. 
