Tas. 5013. 
MEYENIA EREcTa. 
Upright Meyenia. 
Nat. Ord. ACANTHACE#.—DIDYNAMIA ANGIOSPERMIA. 
Gen. Char. Calyx parvus, quinquelobus, bracteolis duabus magnis inclusis. 
Corolla infundibuliformis, fauce sensim ampliata, ¢u4o brevissimo intus annulo 
piloso clauso, limbo wquali. Stamina 4, didynama ; anthere apice barbate, bi- 
loculares, superiorum loculis inéequalibus, altero’ magis supero divergente latere 
tomentoso, inferiorum parallelis subsequalibus, basi muticis. Stigma membra- 
naceo-dilatatum, bilabiatum, labiis bilobis. Capsuda e basi tumidula conico-atte- 
nuata, ad basin bilocularis, tetrasperma, dissepimento persistente, valvis adnato, 
ad axin lignoso, dissolubili. Semina (immatura) strophiolo cupuliformi solubili 
spongioso suffulta.—Plante Indice vel Afriese occidentalis tropice. Caulis sean- 
dens vel erectus. Folia opposita, integerrima. Flores azillares, pedunculati. Nees. 
Meyenra erecta; glabra, ramis erecto-patentibus, foliis petiolatis ovatis acumi- 
natis integris vel sinuato-dentatis, ealyce brevissimo sub-12-fido, corolle — 
‘tubo bracteis oblongo-lanceolatis quadruplo longiore. 
Meyenra erecta. Benth. in Niger Flora, p. 476. 
A really lovely stove plant, of a genus of which only one 
species has been hitherto known (Meyenta Hawteyneana, Nees, 
Maund’s ‘ Botanist,’ t. 188)—and that an Indian climber, while 
ours is a western tropical African nearly erect shrub, discovered 
at Cape Coast Castle by Dr. J. R. T. Vogel, the first of that 
name whose life has been sacrificed to scientific researches in 
the interior of Africa. Plants were forwarded to us by Messrs. 
Rollison, of Tooting; the seeds had been sent from the African 
coast, and germinated in the stove in the early part of 1856. 
‘The species is hardly so strict in habit as to merit the specific 
name of erecta. It is a graceful, lax-growing shrub, bearing 
extremely beautiful flowers during the early summer months. 
Duscr. A shrub two to three or four feet high with us; six 
to eight feet in its native country, suberect : branches \ax, erecto- 
patent, by no means scandent as in UM. Hawteyneana. Leaves 
approximate, opposite, petiolate, ovate or subrhomboid, glabrous, 
OCTOBER lst, 1857. 
