Tas. 8150. 
‘SSTREPTOCARPUS Hozsttr. 
“East Tropical Africa, 
GESNERACEAE. Tribe CYRTANDREAR. 
Srreptocarpvs, Lindl. ; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. ii. p. 1023. 
Streptocarpus Holstii, Zngler, Jahrb. vol. xviii. (1893), p. 77, tt. 4et 5 ; e grege 
S. Kirkii, Hook. f. (B. M. t. 6782) et S. caulescentis, Vatke (B. M. 
t. 6814), sed habitu graciliore, foliorum petiolis longioribus et forum 
colore caeruleo differt. 
Caules graciles, metrales vel ultra, debiles, quadrangulares, cito glabrescentes, 
nitidi, ad nodos incrassatos primum pilosi. Internodia folia subaequantia. 
Folia tenuia, subcarnosa, longe petiolata, ovata, oblonga, vel fere orbi- 
cularia, absque petiolo 15-4 em. longa, obtusa, integra, praesertim subtus 
secus costam venasque pilis crassiusculis parce vestita; venae primariae 
laterales utrinque 7-9, subtus elevatae; petiolus laminam fere aequans. 
Cymae 2-6-florae, pilis glandulosis parcissime instractae, in foliorum 
superiorum axillis graciliter pedunculatae, 10-15 cm. longae, erectae, 
pedicellis capillaribus quam flores longioribus. Flores “ saturate caeru- 
lei,” circiter 2°5-3 cm. longi et 15 cm. diametro. Calyz crassus, pilo- 
sulus, subaequaliter 5-lobus, lobis porta circiter 2 mm. longis obtusius- 
culis apice incrassatis. Corollae puberulae labia valde inaequalia, 
superiore bifido quam inferiore 4-plo breviore. Antherae cohaerentes. 
Ovarium glabrum, stylo incluso. Capsula glabra, gracilis, 5-6 cm. 
longa. 
This very elegant plant was raised at Kew from seed 
received from the Berlin Botanic Garden in 1905, and 
flowered freely in December, 1906. It is a much more 
ornamental plant than either of the two similar species 
with which it is compared above, and if it retain the 
winter-flowering habit it deserves a future in cultivation. 
Descr.—A slender, elegant branching herb, about 18 in. 
high, and as much, through. Stems weak, 4-angled, 
glabrescent, shining, thickened at the pilose nodes. 
Internodes about as long as the leaves. Leaves thin, 
somewhat fleshy, long-stalked, ovate, oblong, or nearly 
orbicular, including stalk 14-3 in. long, obtuse, entire, 
slightly hairy, especially on the underside along the mid- 
rib and primary veins. Cymes 2-6-flowered, borne on 
very slender stalks arising in the axils of the upper leaves, 
4—6 in. long, sparingly furnished with glandular hairs; 
pedicels extremely slender. Flowers mauve-purple, with a 
white throat 1-13 in. long, } in. across. Calye very 
small, nearly equally 5-lobed; lobes oblong, obtuse, 
Aveust Ist, 1907, : 
