Tas. 4713. 
| SYPHOCAMPYLUS Onrsienranus. 
E D Orbigny’'s Syphocampylus. 
Nat. Ord. LoBeLiace®.—PENTANDRIA MOoNOGYNIA. 
Gen. Ohar, (Vide supra, Tas. 4178.) 
¥ SYPHOCAMPYLUS Orbignianus ; ramis (erectis ?) teretibus herbaceis, foliis terna- 
2 tis ovato-acuminatis breviter petiolatis ineequaliter acuteque dentatis superne 
glabriusculis subtus puberulis, pedicellis folio dimidio brevioribus, calyce 
corollaque velutinis, tubo calycis hemispheerico, lobis lineari-subulatis tubo 
triplo longioribus, corolla calyce multo longiore lobis linearibus, antheris 2 
inferioribus barbatis. DC. 
SypHocampytus Orbignianus. De Cand. Prodr. v. 7. p. 405. Van Houtte, 
“ Flore des Serres, p. 544.” | 
Our plant from which the accompanying figure was taken was 
‘derived from Mr. Van Houtte, and was received under the name 
here adopted. We find the S. Orbignianus of De Candolle to 
correspond well with this, except where the branches are de- 
_ scribed as erect. But as that author only appears to have known 
the plant from dried specimens in the Paris Museum, he might 
very well be deceived. Our fine plant, three feet and more long, has 
a peculiarly lax habit, so that the stem has to be supported by a 
stick, and the branches are quite pendent ; and this does not ap- 
pear to be the consequence of a weakened state of the plant. It 
is a native of Bolivia, where it was detected by D’Orbigny, after 
whom the species is named. It is treated as a stove-plant, and 
has handsome foliage and good-sized flowers, but by no means 
so highly coloured as many species of this extensive genus. It 
blossoms in the autumn and continues a long time in flower. 
Descr. Stem three to four feet long, herbaceous, terete, hoary, 
weak, scarcely able to support itself. Branches lax, pendulous 
in our plant. Leaves rarely, and chiefly below, opposite, the rest 
ternate, rather shortly petiolate (petioles ‘half to three-quarters | 
of an inch long, thick in proportion to their length), ovate, = 
acuminate, submembranaceous, flaccid, glabrous, greyish-green 
MAY Ist, 1853. oe 
