Tas. 6636. 
STREPTOCARPUS PARVIFLORA. 
Native of South Africa. 
Nat. Ord. GesNERACER.—Tribe CYRTANDRE®. 
Genus Srreprocarrvs, Lindl.; (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. vol. ii. p. 1023.) 
Srreprocarrus parviflora; foliis plurimis suberectis sessilibus oblongis v. ovato- 
v. lanceolato-oblongis obtusis crenulatis dense lanuginosis, nervis impressis 
rugosis scapis gracilibus pilosis plurifloris, bracteis parvis oblongis, calycis pilosi 
segmentis lineari-lanceolatis, corolla albe tubo recto glanduloso-piloso lobis 
ovato-rotundatis, 
S. parviflora, ZH. Meyer Zwei Pfl. Docum. p. 152 (nomen tantum), ex Harv. MSS. ; 
C. B. Clarke, Monog. Cyrtandr. in A. DC. Monog, Phanerog. ined. 
The genus Streptocarpus comprises plants of very different 
modes of growth. The typeof the genus—the old S. Rezii, 
Lindl. (see our Plate 3005, under Didymocarpus)—was 
introduced in 1826 ; it resembles the present species in habit, 
but differs in the single-flowered scapes, which, however, 
spring from the very bases of the leaf-blade, as in our plant. 
The next species that flowered in our gardens (in 1855) 
was the beautiful S. polyanthus, Hook. (Plate 4850), which 
bears a single horizontal leaf, and whose many-flowered 
scapes arise in succession along a considerable length of the 
midrib on the upper surface of the leaf; and which further 
differs from the type species in the almost salver-shaped 
corolla with a curved tube and obovate crenulate spreading 
lobes. In the same year, S. Gurdeni, Hook., flowered 
(Plate 4862), a many-leaved species, with the scapes more 
radical, and with the corolla-tube slightly curved, and the 
limb very distinctly two-lipped. Lastly, nm 1861, the most 
beautiful species hitherto discovered was introduced, the 
S. Saundersti, Hook. (Plate 5251), which has the single 
horizontal leaf of S. polyanthus, with the scapes also arising 
from along the midrib far into the leaf, but with a corolla 
more nearly resembling that of 8. Rewxii and parviflora. 
JULY Ist, 1882, 
