Tas. 7409. 
IXTANTHES rerzioipes. 
Native of the Cape of Good Hope. 
Nat. Ord. ScRopHULARINEZ.—Tribe CHELONER. 
Genus Ix1antues, Benth. ; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. ii. p. 987.) 
Ix1tantues retzioides; frutex erectus, hirsutus, foliosus, foliis subverticillatim 
confertis erectis lineari-oblanceolatis acutis serratis rigidis, floribus 
axillaribus, pedicellis brevibus 2-bracteatis, calycis labio superiore 3-fido, 
inferiore 2-fido, lobis brevioribus lanceolatis acutis, corolla sulphures 
viscido-puberule tubo inflato gibbo, labio superiore 2-fido erecto lobis 
rotundatis, inferiore patente 3-fido lobis obiongo-rotundatis, staminibus 
2 corollx basi insertis inclusis, antherarum loculis divaricatis, staminodiis 
2-3, stylo incluso apice emarginato, capsula ovoideo-tetragona septicida, 
seminibus curvis. 
I. retzioides, Benth. in Hook. Comp. Bot. Mag. vol. ii. (1836), p. 53; in DC. 
Prodr, vol. x. p. 335. Harv. Thes. Capens. vol. i. t. 99. Macowan in 
Gard. Chron. (1889), vol. i. p. 186, £. 19. 
Ivianthes retzioides is described by Professor Macowan, 
F.L.S. (writing from Capetown) in the above-cited article 
in the Gardener’s Chronicle, as one of the rarest of Western 
Cape plants. He says of it, “It appears to have been 
gathered by our predecessors Ecklon and Zeyher, and 
long afterwards by the late Dr. Pappe, who died in 1862. 
Mr. Robert Templeman, a nurseryman here, found a soli- 
tary plant in 1882 or 1888, and my colleague, Bolus, 
dropped upon the very same one some year or so after- 
wards, when it was almost destroyed by the cutting of a 
water-furrow. I have hunted for other examples every 
summer since. This year, after my return from an unsuc- 
cessful raid, the farmer, on whose property the locality is, 
found a small colony of the shrub, some examples being 
five feet high, and magnificently in flower. It grows 
almost in water.” There are specimens of it in the Kew 
Herbarium from both Ecklon and Pappe, and from 
Messrs. Macowan and Bolus. The latter give as its habi- 
tat, by streams in the mountains near the waterfall of 
Arai Ist, 1895, 
