Tas. 5594. — 
SANCHEZIA nosutas. 
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Brilliant-flowered Sanchezia. 
Nat. Ord. Acanruace®.—D1anpria Monoeynia. 
Gen. Char. Calycis foliola 5, spathulata, inequalia. Corolle tubus longe — 
exsertus, tubulosus, ore coarctato, limbi lobis 5 parvis late ovatis revo- 
lutis. Stamina fertilia 2, exserta, filamentis retrorsum pilosis; anthere 
2-loculares, loculis parallelis hirsutis basi breviter calcaratis ; stamina 2 ru- 
dimentaria subuliformia inter bases fertilium. Ovariwm 2-loculare; stylus 
filiformis, exsertus, apice curvus, 2-fidus; ovula in loculis 4, adscendentia. 
Fructus ignotus.—Herbe Peruvianz robuste, ramose, ramis 4-gonis. Folia 
petiolata, petiolis basi connatis, integerrimis v. dentatis. Flores speciosi, in 
cymas paniculatas confertas late bracteatas terminales dispositt. 
SANcHEZIA nobilis; foliis ramisque glaberrimis obovato-oblongis lanceo- 
latisve acuminatis obtuse dentatis in petiolum latum attenuatis, brac- 
, teis magnis late ovatis concavis puberulis rubris, corolla 2-pollicari 
fere glabra crocea. 
A most beautiful and highly-interesting plant, discovered 
by Messrs. Veitch’s indefatigable collector Mr. Pearce, in 
Ecuador, in 1863, and which flowered in the Royal Exotic 
Nurseries, Chelsea, in June last. It cerlainly belongs to the 
little-known genus Sanchezia of Ruiz and Pavon, with the 
original description of which it agrees in all respects except 
the structure of the ovary. This, according to Ruiz and Pa- 
von’s description and figure, is that of a Scrophularineous plant, 
whilst our plant shows it to be truly Acanthaceous. This is 
not the only instance in which the usually accurate authors of 
the ‘Flora Peruviana’ have referred the fruit of one plant to 
the flower of another, a mistake which could hardly have oc- 
curred in this instance had the Natural System been invented 
when the genus was described, for the two species figured in 
the ‘ Flora Peruviana’ are so obviously Acanthaceous in habit 
and floral characters, that it is almost inconceivable that they 
should belong to any other Natural Order. : 
Sanchezia nobilis differs from both the species hitherto de- 
Aveust lst, 1866. 
