hardly conceive a more interesting stove-plant.* It is pos- 
sible it may bear a warm greenhouse in the summer months. It 
is a native of Natal. We owe the possession of it to. our liberal 
friend W. Wilson Saunders, Esq., who received the seeds from 
Mr. Plant. We dedicate this species with great satisfaction to 
Mr. Saunders, who has done much for South African botany. 
Our drawing was made in April, 1861. As is the case in 
S. polyanthus, the scapes originate from the base of the broad 
costa of the leaf, several rising in a line, and their bases are con- 
fluent. 
Descr. Leaf solitary, radical, a foot long, and eight to nine 
inches broad, cordate, obtuse, velvety, strongly and coarsely ser- 
rated at the margin, pale yellowish-green above, beneath purple- 
rose-colour and very tomentose, costa or midrib very broad ;_ pri- 
mary veins strong and very prominent beneath ; these are united 
by transverse secondary veins ; ultimate veins or veinlets obscure. 
Scapes several, arising in a line from the base of the midrib, 
and confluent, erect, stout, terete, pubescent, green, bearing a 
compound eyme at the summit of numerous, rather large, pale- 
blue, drooping flowers. Pedice/s an inch long. Calyza of five, 
deep, linear-lanceolate, rather small, somewhat spreading seg- 
ments. . Corolla an inch and a half long, infundibuliform: tube 
broad, nearly straight, longer than the very oblique limb, which 
has two, spreading lips ; upper one two-, lower one three-lobed ; 
lobes oval or obovate ; faux with two deep purple spots, sepa- 
rated by a yellow line. Stamens two, very small, coadunate by 
their anthers; and three very small abortive ones, of which one 
is reduced to a small gland. Ovary cylindrical, downy, as well 
as the style, nearly equal to it in length, becoming twisted be-— 
fore the fruit is mature. 
Fig. 1. Corolla laid open. 2. Pistil :—magnified. 
* Since our drawing was made, at the present moment, the three monophyl- 
lous plants cultivated in one pot have yielded twenty-one scapes, and more than 
a hundred and twenty flowers are in perfection, 
