Tab. 7574 

 STROBILANTHES Dyerianus. 

 Native of Burma. 



Nat. Ord. Acanthace^s. — Tribe Ruellie*. 

 Genus Stkobilantues, Bl.\ (Benth. & BTook.f. Gen. Plant, vol. ii. p. 1036*.) 



Strobilanthes (Bracteate) Dyerianus ; frutex erectus, ramoaus, hirtellus, 

 foliis sessilibus ovatis ovato-lanceolatisve acuminatis supra basin constric- 

 tum panduriformibus serrulatis utrinque sparse hirtelha supra viridibus 

 plagis inter nervos albo-roseis variegatis, subtus junioribus praesertim 

 roseo-purpureis, spicis axillaribus densifloris calycibusque glanduloso- 

 pilosis, bracteis calycibus brevi .ribus spathulatis persistentibus, brae- 

 teolis sepalisque linearibus glanduloso-pilosis, corollas 1^-pollicaria 

 violacei lente curvi tubo e basi brevi angusto modice ventricoso, limbi- 

 . brevis lobis latioribus quam longis revolutis, staminibus 4, 2 longioribns 

 perfectis 2 brevioribus antheris cassis, filamentia glaberrimis, ovario 

 glaberrimo. 



S. Dyerianus, Sort. Sander, ex Masters in Gard. Chron. 1893, vol. i. p. 442. 

 Garden & Forest, vol. vi (1893) p. 194. Martinet in Le Jardin, 1893, 

 p. 151, fig. 58. Pynaert in Journ. d , BTortic. Belg. 1894, p. 133. Joum. 

 Jlortic. Ser. 3, vol. xxvi. p. 359, fig. 66. Kew Bullet. 1894, App. ii. 

 p. 51. 



The history of this beautiful plant, as recorded at Kew, 

 is, that it was discovered in Burma by Boxall (Collector 

 for Hugh Low & Co.), who presented plants to the 

 Botanical Gardens of Singapore, whence it was introduced 

 into the Royal Gardens, Kew, in October, 1892, with the 

 name " Strobilanthes, sp. nov., Boxall." Young plants 

 were distributed from Kew, one of which was exhibited at 

 the Ghent Horticultural Exhibition of 1893 by Messrs. 

 Sander & Co., of St. Albans, under the name of 8. Dyeri- 

 anus, which attracted attention, owing to the beautiful 

 rose-purple of the undersurface of the leaves when young. 

 Its nearest ally is 8. auriculatus, Nees, figured in 

 Wallich's "Plantas Asiaticse Rariores, vol. hi. t. 295, a 

 native of Central India and Burma. 



The specimen figured is of two lateral inflorescences 

 and a leaf, communicated by Mr. Lynch from the Botanical 

 Gardens of Cambridge University, who flowered the plant 

 in January, 1894. The figure gives no idea of the beauty 



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