Tab. 7036. 
STREPTOCARPUS PARVIFLORA. 
Native of the Cape of Good Hope. 
Nat. Ord. CrrTanDRACcEx.—Tribe CyRTANDREZ. 
Genus Srreprocarrus, Lindl.; (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. vol. ii. p. 1023.) 
Streprocarpus parviflora; laxe lanuginosa, foliis paucis terre appressis subses- 
silibus patulis ovatis obtusis crenatis bullatis, scapis gracilibus plurifloris, 
bracteis minutis, calycis segmentis minoribus erectis, corollz tubo lente curvo 
purpureo glanduloso-piloso, lobis rotundatis albis, 
S. parviflora, E. Meyer Zwei Pfl. Docum. p. 152 (nomen tantum) (non Bot. 
Mag. t. 6636); C. B. Clarke, Monogr. Cyrtand. 152. 
At Tab. 6636 of this work a plant is figured under the 
name of Streptocarpus parviflora, which, though evidently 
most closely allied to that here figured, has quite lately 
been regarded as a different species. This latter is, ac- 
cording to Mr. Clarke, the most recent monographer of 
the genus, probably S. lutea of Clarke, of which that 
author says “8. parvijflore forsan varietas.” Of S. 
parviflora there is no authentic description, nor are there 
specimens in the Herbarium at Kew so named by its 
author, but now that both the reputed 8. parviflora of E. 
Meyer, and the plant figured for it at t. 6636 are known 
in cultivation, the diagnosis of the two is easy; the true 
S. parviflora is densely shaggy all over except the corolla, 
the leaves are appressed to the ground, much broader, 
ovate and spreading, the flowers rather larger, and the 
corolla lobes are orbicular, the corolla-tube is also narrower 
in proportion to the size of the flower. In all other 
respects the species are very similar. The only native 
Specimens in the Kew Herbarium of the true parviflora 
are one very poor one collected by Harvey at Uitenhage 
and labelled by him 8. Rhevii B., and very fine ones from 
an altitude of 3900 feet on the Graaf Reinet Mountains, 
collected by Mr. Bolus. According to Mr. Clarke it has 
JANUARY Ist, 1889, 
