Tas. 4448. 
STEMONACANTHUS MacropuHyLuus. 
Large-flowered Stemonacanthus. 
Nat. Ord. ACANTHACE®.—D1pYNAMIA ANGIOSPERMIA. 
Gen. Char. Calyx supra basin 5-partitus, equalis. Corolla ex infundibuli- 
formi-hypocrateriformis, id est, faucibus elongatis obconicis, limbo patentissimo 
reflexove. Stamina 4 longe prominentia, tubi mediocris apici inserta, basi per- 
paria connata faucibusque longiore tractu adnata: anthere biloculares connectivo 
latiusculo demum sepe complicato et tum loculis arctissime contiguis secundis, 
dorso anther carinato, antheram unilocularem fingentibus, loculis margine mem- 
branaceis. Stigma bilabiatum labiis. planis acutis crassiusculis, superiore bre- 
viore. Capsula ad basin brevi spatio contracta et asperma, hince magis inflato- 
ovata vel oblonga et ad basin cavi tetra-octosperma. Semina retinaculis sub- 
tensa, plana. Retinacula apice tridentata.—Frutices Americani speciosi, foliis 
medii caulis sepe ternis. Tnflorescentia plus minus glandulosa-pilosa, raro glan- 
dulosa ; vel panicula terminalis, trichotoma, bifida, floribus scepe alternis brevi- — 
pedicellatis vel abbreviatis ramis inflorescentia thyrsoidea ; vel denique flores im 
axillis foliorum superioribus solitarti sessiles. Bractew parve, lineares, anguste 
obtuse, patentes vel reflece persistentes rariorive exemplo decidue.  Bracteole 
nulle. Flores coccinei. DC. ve 
STEMONACANTHUS macrophyllus ; caule fruticoso erecto, ramis foliisque ovatis 
ovatove oblongis apicem versus attenuatis basi acutis repando-crenatis 
petiolatis utrinque subtilissime puberulis, pedunculis v. folia eequantibus 
bifloris v. umbellatim quadrifidis multifloris folio’ longioribus, bracteis 
lanceolatis pedicellos zequantibus, calyvibus ad 4 5-fidis basi bibracteolatis 
glabriusculis, corolla tubulosa. Nees. : 
SremMonacaNntuus macrophyllus. Nees in De Cand. Prodr. v. 11. p. 205. 
Rveir1a macrophylla. Vahl, Symb. v. 2. p. 72. 4.39. Lindl. Bot. Reg. 1846, 
4. 
A handsome-flowered plant, easily increased by cuttings, but 
more desirable in a young state (when it readily blooms) than 
when it has attained a large size, for then the foliagé predominates 
too much. It is an old species of Vahl, but only recently, so far 
as we know, introduced to our stoves, by one of the collectors 
for the Royal Gardens of Kew, Mr. Purdie, in 1844, from St. 
Martha, and apparently other places in New Grenada as well as 
JUNE Ist, 1849. 
