Tas. 5253. 
STENOGASTER CONCINNA. 
Neat Stenogaster. 
Nat. Ord, CyrTANDRACE2®.—DIDYNAMIA ANGIOSPERMIA. 
Gen. Char. Calyx quinquefidus, basi ovario adnatus, obliquus. Corolla in- 
fundibuliformi-campanulata v. hypocraterimorpha, limbo obliquo patente. Sta- 
- mina 4; antheris per paria connatis. Glandule 5, distinctee. Ovarium vix 
semi-inferum, ovoideum ; stigmate bilobo. 
STENOGASTER concinna ; pusilla, puberula, caulibus brevissimis ceespitosis, foliis 
petiolatis late ovato-rotundatis grosse crenato-serratis, pedunculis axillaribus 
elongatis unifloris scapzeformibus, calyce parvo, corolle pallide lilacine, 
tubo superne luride purpureo, fauce pallida intus maculata. 
This pretty little plant flowered in Messrs. Veitch and Son’s 
Nursery, at Chelsea, in the month of April last, but it is not 
known from what country it came, nor by whom it was imported. 
The habit is that of a small Indian Didymocarpus, but the po- 
sition of the ovary, the glands, and stamens, remove it from that 
tribe of the Order, and place it amongst the old Gloxinias. It 
appears to accord with the characters of Hansteen’s genus S/eno- 
gaster, and has same subscapigerous habit and flower as 
S. hirsuta (Bot. Mag. Tab. 1004). The deep-green close foliage, 
bright stems, petioles, and veins, and abundance of pretty flowers, 
render it an attractive plant, when well cultivated. 
Descr. Stems deeply tufted, half an inch to an inch high, 
deep vinous red, as are the petioles and veins of the leaf. Leaves 
opposite, broadly ovate, subrotund, strongly crenate, about half 
an inch to three-quarters of an inch broad. Flowering peduncles 
axillary, very numerous, solitary, one-flowered, naked, resembling 
scapes. Flowers nearly an inch long. Calyz green, small, ob- 
lique, with five, narrow-oblong, blunt odes. Corolla between 
funnel-shaped and campanulate, with five spreading blunt /odes. 
pale-lilac, deeper along the upper surface of the tube and on the 
JUNE Ist, 1861. 
