Tas. 4899. 
APHELANDRA variecata. 
Variegated Aphelandra. 
Nat. Ord. AcANTHACER.—DIDYNAMIA ANGIOSPERMIA. 
Gen. Char. Calyx 5-partitus, ineequalis. Corolla hypogyna, ringens, labio 
superiore subfornicato, inferioris tripartiti laciniis lateralibus multo minoribus. 
Stamina 4, corollze tubo inserta, inclusa, didynama; anthere uniloculares, 
mutice. Ovarium biloculare, loculis biovulatis. Stylus simplex ; stigma bifi- 
dum. Capsula teretiuscula, bilocularis, tetrasperma, loculicide bivalvis, valvis 
medio septiferis. Semina compressa, retinaculis subtensa.—Frutices America 
tropice; foliis oppositis; spicis avillaribus et terminalibus, tetragonis; bracteis 
oppositis, submembranaceis, bracteolis angustis ; corollis speciosis, rubicundis (vel 
Jflavis). Endl. 
APHELANDRA variegata ; foliis brevissime petiolatis ovato-lanceolatis venis in- 
ferne albo-lineatis, spicis simplicibus incrassatis subtetragonis, bracteis ellip- 
ticis obtusis integerrimis aurantiacis carinatis, corolle flavee tubo valde elon- 
gato labiis subzequalibus superiore conduplicato inferiore trifido, laciniis late- 
ralibus vix minoribus, sepalis oblongis acutis. 
APHELANDRA variegata. Morel, in Fl. des Serres, v. 10. ¢. 981. 
Received from the Messrs. Veitch, of the Exotic Nurseries, 
Exeter and Chelsea. It is a native of Brazil, and is certainly 
an extremely handsome plant, worthy of a place in every stove : 
its foliage is ample and striking; and the large elongated spikes 
resemble a narrow pine-cone, but are of the richest orange-red, 
from the scales of which protrude the bright yellow flowers; 
and, in addition, its flowering season with us is in the dead of 
winter. It requires the same mode of treatment as the 4. auran- 
tiaca, Lindl., figured at our Tab. 4224, which it much resembles, 
but there are the following remarkable differences in our present 
plant :—Leaves larger, longer, and on very short petioles, with 
white lines at the base of the veins. Scales of the spike ellip- 
tical, obtuse, entire, coloured; flowers much smaller, fewer ex- 
panded at a time, uniformly and invariably yellow, with the 
lateral segments of the lower lip as long and nearly as broad as 
the central one ; calyx much smaller and of a different shape. 
Descr. Our plants are about a foot and a half high, mode- 
FEBRUARY Ist, 1856, 
