Tas. 4452. 
ALLOPLECTUS capiratus. 
Camitate Alloplectus. 
Nat. Ord. GEsNERIACE. —DIDYNAMIA ANGIOSPERMIA. 
Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Tas. 4216.) 
_ ALLopLectus capitatus ; elatus robustus, caule simplici obtuse tetragono, foliis 
amplis ovatis serratis dense ‘velutino-sericeis subtus petiolisque magis mi- 
nusve sanguineis, pedunculis axillaribus foliorum supremorum brevibus, 
floribus dense umbellato-capitatis, pedicellis simplicibus umbellatisque, 
calycis sanguinei sepalis amplis foliaceis cucullatis marginibus reflexis 
dentatis, corolla calycem vix duplo superantis sericee flavee tubo supra 
medium ventricoso. 
“ALLOPLEcTUs speciosus. Hortul. not of Poeppig- 
» Presented to the Royal Gardens of Kew by Messrs. Knight 
and Perry, of the King’s Road Nursery, Chelsea, who received 
it from the continent under the name of Al/oplecius speciosus ;— 
but it has assuredly nothing to do with the only species de- 
scribed under that name, that of Dr. Poeppig. It 1s m all 
probability a native of tropical America, but of what part we 
e not learned. It is a very beautiful plant, both in the 
age and the flowers :—the former is of a large size, each leaf 
- from ten inches to a foot in length, of the richest possible velvety, 
or between velvety and silky, hue, the upper side- deep green, 
os verging to yellow, the under side purplish, while the stem and 
: petioles, peduncles and calyx are of a rich crimson blood-colour :— 
- the latter remarkable for its great size and the cucullate sepals 
or segments ; and in the centre of this deep red calyx with the 
very convex segments is an eye of yellow, formed by the com- 
: paratively small corolla. It flowers in the stove in March 
| and April, and is really a very striking plant. 
@ Desc. Stem in our specimen nearly three feet high, erect, simple, 
: stout, rather succulent than woody, bluntly four-angled, marked 
with the scars of the fallen leaves, above leafy, and there clothed 
oF with short dense blood-coloured velvety down. Leaves opposite, 
ae large, patent or drooping, ovate, serrated, acute, strongly veined, 
7 JULY Ist, 1849, n2 
