Tas. 4468. 
CYRTANTHERA avRAnTIACa. 
— Orange-flowered Cyrtanthera. 
Nat. Ord. ACANTHACEH.—DIANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
Gen. Char. (Vide supra, TAB. 4444.) 
CYRTANTHERA aurantiaca ; fruticosa erecta, caule acuto tetragono, foliis lato- 
seu elliptico-lanceolatis rigidiusculis in petiolum breviusculum crassum 
attenuatis, thyrso compacto ovato, floribus erectis flavo-aurantiacis, bracteis 
ellipticis, bracteolis sepalisque lanceolatis pubescentibus, corolla labio 
superiore recto, ’ 
CaLcosTyYLis aurantiaca. Makoy’s Cat. 
The Acanthaceous plants contain many beautiful species 
known at present to us only in our Herbaria, but which are 
- eminently worth cultivating, witness the many species of Strobi- 
lanthes, Barleria, &c. of the East Indies, especially of Ceylon ; 
while the New World, in Dipteracanthus and the genus here 
represented of tropical South America, presents individuals of 
equal merit in regard to beauty. Already two species of Cyr- 
tanthera have appeared in our Magazine, the Justicia carnea 
(Tab. 3383), now called Cyrtanthera magnifica by Nees, and our 
C. catalpefolia (Tab. 4444). There can be no doubt of the 
present beg a congener of those. We received our plant, at 
the Royal Gardens, Kew, from our often-mentioned friend 
Mr. Henderson, of Pine-Apple Place; and it appears to have 
been sent to him from Belgium under a name we can nowhere 
find in print, save in Makoy’s Catalogue, but without any 
oat of its introduction to Europe, or any mention of native 
ocality. 
Saks. A shrub with erect stem: dranches rather stout, 
herbaceous, acutely tetragonal. Leaves opposite, broadly ellip- 
tical, lanceolate, slightly acuminate, rather rigid, penninerved, 
tapering below into a rather short thick petiole. Flowers large, 
handsome, bright-coloured, copious, erect, forming a dense ter- 
minal, bracteated thyrsus. Bracteas (at least the lower ones) 
SEPTEMBER Ist, 1849. 
