Tab. 8398. 
APHELANDRA Frascrnartor. 
Tropical South America. 
ACANTHACEAE. Tribe APHELANDREAE. 
ArHELANDRA, 2. Br.; Benth. et Liook. f. Gen, Plant. vol. ii. p. 1102. 
Aphelandra fascinator, Linden & André in Iilustr. Hort. vol. xxi. p. 42, 
tab. 164; ab A. acutifolia, Nees, affini bracteis integris undique molliter 
glanduloso-pilosis, sepalis lJongiuscule setaceo-acuminatis glanduloso- 
pilosis, labii inferioris segmento intermedio lateralibus duplo longiore 
latioreque diversa, 
Suffrutex caulibus teretibus glabris; gemmae axillares albo-tomentosae. Folia 
integra, elliptica vel late lanceolata, utrinque acuminata, basi in petiolum 
brevem attenuata, ad 20 cm. longa, ad 1 em. lata, wolliter herbacea, 
glabra nisi novella subtus fugaciter pubescentia, supra saturate viridia 
vittis argenteis secundum. costam nervosque dispositis percursa, subtus 
purpureo-olivacea costa et nervis purpureis prominentibus. Spicue ad 
apices ramorum ortae, densae; bracteae ovato-ellipticae, subacutae, 
integrae, 2-2-2 em. longae, ad 1 em. latae, extra undique glandulosv-albo- 
pilosae; bracteolae subulatae, ad 1°5 em. longae, eodem indumento ac 
bracteae. Sepa/u herbacea, aequilonga, 18-20 mm. longa, posticum 
oblongum, 3-dentatum, dentibus subulatis interiore quam lateralibus 
multo breviore, caetera e basi anguste-lanceolata longe subulata, omnia 
glanduloso-pubescentia, superne longe albo-ciliata. Corolla fulgenter 
coccinea, sparse molliterque glanduiloso-pilosa; tubus cylindricus, 3°5-4 
cm. longus, 4-5 mm. latus; labium superum valde coucavum, a fronte 
visum late lanceolatum, acutum vel acute acuminatum, 2 cm. longum; 
labium inferumj inaequaliter 3-partitum, lobo intermedio late rotundato- 
ovato, 2°5-3 cm. longo, 2 (vel ultra) em. lato, lateralibus late elliptico- 
ovatis acutis 1-7-2°9 em. longis 1-1-1°2 em. latis. Stamina paullo supra 
basin inserta; filamenta ima basi glanduloso-villosula, supra medium 
patule eglanduloso-pilosa, ultra 4 cm. longa; antherae acutae, 5 mm. 
longae, glabrae vel magis minusve villosulae. Ovariwm praeter apicem 
glanduloso-villosulum glabrum; stylus inferne et ad stigma pubescens. 
Capsula ignota.—O. STAPF. 
According to Mr. André the handsome Acanthad which 
forms the subject of our illustration was discovered in semi- 
umbrageous forests in Colombia in 1872, and was intro- 
duced to cultivation by Mr. J, Linden in the following year ; 
it was first described trom a piant in Mr. Linden’s nursery 
at Brussels in 1874. There is, however, in the herbarium 
at Kew a specimen collected in the neighbourhood of 
Bogota by Mr. D. Bowman, when travelling on behalf of 
the Royal Horticultural Society, which agrees so closely with 
the form of Aphelandra fascinater known in cultivation 
that it may safely be treated as belonging to the same 
Octozer, 1911, 
