Tas. 7468. - 
HYPOCYRTA putcura. 
Native of New Grenada. 
Nat. Ord. Gesneracrem.—Tribe CyRTANDRE. 
Genus Hypocyrrra, Mart.; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. 11. p. 1010.) 
Hyrocrrta pulchra; tota hirtula, caule erecto robusto annulato, foliis 
petiolatis ovatis subacutis basi rotundatis v. sub-cordatis serrulatis, 
supra fusco-viridibus bullatis setulosis (setulis albidis tuberculis globosis 
insertis) nervis arcoatis utrinque 10-12 pallidioribus, subtus rubris nervis 
nervulicque prominulis hirtellis reticulatis, petiolo terete valido, pedun- 
culis solitariis axillaribus petiolis longioribus erectis validis superne 
incrassatis, sepalis amplis late ovatis cinnabariuis costa valida, corolla 
calyce duplo longiore ampullewformi hirsuta, tubo basi gibbo flavido, ore 
constricto, lobis 5 parvis cinnabariais recurvis, staminibus 4, filamentis 
superne tortis basi dilatatis et in vaginam postice fissam basi corolle 
insertam confluentibus, antheris didymis, disco erecto postico, ovario 
hirsuto, stylo glabro., : 
H. pulchra, N. EF. Br. in Gard. Chron. (1894) vol. ii: p. 244; in Kew 
Bulletin, 1895, App. II. p. 44. : 
Of the eighteen or twenty known species of Hypocyrta, 
none equal H. pulchra in brilliancy of colouring. Some 
idea of the more usual appearance presented. by the species 
may be gained by a reference to two published in this 
magazine, H. strigillosa, Mart. t. 4047, and H. glabra, 
Hook. t. 4346. These, like H. pulchra, are plants of erect 
habit with opposite leaves, solitary axillary flowers, large 
sepals, and an urceolate more or less gibbous corolla with 
a constricted mouth and small recurved lobes. All have 
the filaments dilated at the base and confluent in a broad 
lamina. Of two other plants published in this magazine 
as belonging to Hypocyrta, one, H. gracilis, Mart., belongs 
to the genus Codononthe, Hanst., and the other, H. leuco- 
stoma, Hook., to Besleria. 
The nature of the very short pubescence of the upper 
surface of the leaves of H. pulchra is very curious (see fig. 
1). The whole epidermis is covered with close-set minute 
globose papillz each surmounted by a short bristle. 
: Hypocyrta pulchra is a native of New Grenada, whence 
it was imported by Messrs. J. Veitch & Sons, from whom 
the plant figured was obtained. It flowered in a stove of 
the Royal Gardens in June, 1895. 
Arnit Ist, 1896, 
