Tabs. 7447. 
STREPTOCARPUS Wenpnanou. 
Native of the Transvaal. 
a 
Nat. Ord. GEsNERACEH.—Tribe CyrTaNDREX. 
Genus Streprocarrus, Lindl. ; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant, vol. ii. p. 1023.) 
Srreptocarrus Wendlandii; acaulis, hirsutulus, folio solitario radicali 
sessili amplo late ovato-oblongo basi et apice rotundato marginibus 
undulatis crenulatisque, supra saturate viridi inter nervos perplurimos 
profande impressos tumido, subtus purpureo rubro pilis albis substrigoso, 
scapis plurimis robustis 2-fidis ramis subpaniculatim multifloris petlicel: 
lisque glanduloso-pubescentibus, pedicellis elongatis solitariis geminisque, 
floribus nutantibus amplis, sepalis linearibus obtusis, corolla tubo bucce- 
formi decurvo glanduloso-pubescente, limbi 1} poll. lati lobis 2 posticis 
ovato-rotundatis violaceis, 3 anticis longioribus oblongis albis marginibus 
late violaceis, filamentis apices versus glandulosis, connectivo tumido, 
staminodiis minimis, ovario pubescente, stylo brevi curvo, stigmate disci- 
forme peltato, capsula 3-pollicari angusta cylindracea torta. 
8. Wendlandii, Hort. Dammann ex W. Wats. in Gard. Chron, (1894) vol. i. 
p. 590. Journ. Hort. Ser. III. vol. xxviii. p. 223, fig. 37. ; 
Streptocarpus Wendlandii far surpasses in size and beauty 
all the previously discovered species of its beautiful genus, 
and no one who saw it amongst other species border- 
ing the centre bed of the Succulent House at Kew, 
during the spring and summer of 1894, can forget the 
magnificence of the display it afforded. Its history has 
been given by Mr. Watson in the Gardener’s Chronicle 
above, from which it appears that it is a native of the 
Transvaal, and was first made known by Messrs. Damman 
of Naples, who described it in their catalogue for 1890- 
1891, having imported it from Natal in 1887. In 1888 it 
independently made its appearance at Kew, having come 
up as a seedling amongst some ferns imported from South 
Africa, when it was supposed to be a form or young state 
of S. Sandersii. 5 
Mr. Watson has raised at Kew a hybrid between this 
species and S. Dunnii, Mast. (Tab. 6903) which is of still 
larger dimensions both in foliage and inflorescence than 
either of its parents. Ofthis, which is known as S. Dyeri, 
Decenszr Ist, 1895. 
