TAB. 7200. 
STREPTOCARPUS Gatpini. 
Native of the Transvaal. 
Nat. Ord. Gesneracea.—Tribe CYRTANDREA. 
Genus Srreprocarrvs, Lindl.; (Benth. et Hook.f. Gen. Pl. vol. ii. p. 1028.) 
Srrerrocarrts (Galpini; folio solitario radicali sessili ovato-oblongo obtuso 
integerrimo basi subcordato supra sericeo-villoso inter nervos profunde 
impressos tumidis, subtus carneo nervis validis rubris, scapis plurimis 
pedicellis calycibus ovariisque dense glanduloso-pubescentibus, floribus 
racemosis, pedicellis robustis elongatis erectis v. patulis, calycis 5-partiti 
segmentis linearibus obtusis tubo corolle multo brevioribus, corolle sub- 
campanulatz violacea tubo lente incurvo, lobis 5 wqualibus patenti- 
recurvis orbiculatis tubo «quilongis, filamentis pilosis, antheris reni- 
formibus, staminodiis filiformibus glabris, stylo brevi glanduloso stigmate 
simplici. 
S. Galpini, Hook. f. in Hogg Journ. of Horticulture, N.S. No. 593 (November 
5, 1891, p. 388), fig. 76. 
The plant here figured is the eleventh species of Strepto- 
carpus that has appeared in this Magazine, and it differs 
from all previously described in the very short broad corolla 
tube, rendering the corolla almost campanulate, though 
with a curvature in the tube. In all other species the | 
corolla has a cylindric and more or less elongate or a 
funnel-shaped tube, usually much longer than its lobes. 
8. Galpini is one of the species of which the solitary leaf 
is developed from one of the cotyledons of the embryo, as 
described under 8. Dunnii, Tab. 6903, and as 1s the case 
in 8. Sandersii, Tab. 5251, and 8. polyanthus, Tab. 4850 ; 
and like them is a native of the Hastern South Africa. It 
was discovered in the Transvaal by Mr. Ernest E. Galpin, 
of Barbertown, to whom the Royal Gardens are under great 
obligations for many new plants both living and dried. 
In a letter to Mr. Watson, Assistant-Curator of the Royal 
Gardens, Mr. Galpin describes this Streptocarpus as grow- 
ing in crevices of cliffs and under rocks only on the tops 
of the mountains, just below the brows of the highest 
peaks, as on the “ Bearded Man,” which forms one of the 
boundaries of Swazieland, thirty miles from Barberton. 
Aprit Ist, 1892. 
