Tas. 8042. 
STREPTOCARPUS Granpis. 
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Zululand. © 
Gzsyerace&. ‘Tribe CyrtaNnDREA. 
Srreptocarrvs, Lindl.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. ii. p. 1023. 
Streptocarpus grandis, NV. F. Brown (sp. nov.); ex affinitate S. Saundersii, a 
quo folio multo majore, floribus longioribus angustioribus et tubo 
ceruleo differt. 
Herba acaulescens. Folium unicum radicale, 2-3} ped. longum, 1-2} ped. 
latum, ovatum, basi cordatum, crenatum, utrinqne pubescens; folia 
caulina nulla vel pauca, parva, ovata, sessilia. Pedwnewli plures, 13-3} 
ped. alti, superne in racemos 2-6 elongatos laxos furcati, pubescentes. 
Flores bini. _Bracteze parve, lineari-subulate, acute. Pedicelli 6-10 lin. 
lin. longi, patentes. Sepala 14-24 lin. longa, subulata, acuta, ut 
pedicelli pilis simplicibus et glanduliferis pubescentia, Corolle tubus 
1 poll. longus, ad medium decurvatus, subcylindricus, superne ampliatus, 
minute glanduloso-pubescens, coeruleus, fauce violacea late bivittata; 
limbus obliquus 2 poll. diam., lobis oblongis obtusis 2 posticis coeruleis, 
3 anticis pallidioribus discis albidis ornatis. Stamina inclusa; filamenta 
2 lin. longa, superne incrassata, glabra; anthere subreniformes, cohe- 
rentes, albidw ; staminodia minuta. Ovariwm teres, patenter pubescens ; 
stylus inclusus; stigma capitatum, transversum. Capsula 3-3} poll. 
longa, torta, pubescens. 
Once again the genus Streptocarpus has furnished our 
gardens with an ornamental plant, which in size of 
leaf and height of flower-stems is perhaps the largest 
known of the genus. In the size of its leaf it may be 
compared with 8. Dunnii (Bot. Mag. t. 6903), S. Wend- 
landii (Bot. Mag. t. 7447), and 8. Saundersii (Bot. Mag. 
t. 5251), to which latter species it is most nearly allied, 
although very much larger in its foliage and more flori- 
ferous, besides differing in the longer and narrower blue 
tube and smaller limb of its corolla. It was discovered in 
Zululand by Mr. W. J. Haygarth, together with a very 
much smaller species (S. Haygarthii, N. EH. Br.). A dried 
specimen of the latter was sent to Kew by Mr. J. Medley 
Wood, Director of the Botanic Garden at Durban, Natal, 
to whom Kew is indebted for a very large collection of 
Natal plants. Mingled with it was a portion of a large 
leaf belonging to the plant now described. Unfortunately 
when publishing 8S. Haygarthii in the Flora Capensis, Mr. 
C. B. Clarke mistakenly supposed “the herbarium frag- 
NovemsBer Ist, 1905. 
