Tas. 4850. 
STREPTOCARPUS poLyANTHUS. 
Many-flowered Streptocarpus. 
Nat. Ord. CyrTANDRACE®.—DIANDRIA MonoeGyNIA. 
Gen. Char. Calyx 5-partitus, persistens, eequalis. Corolla tubuloso-infundibu- 
liformis, tubo calyeem duplo vel multoties superante, fauce ventricosa, limbo ob- 
liquo 5-lobo subaequali. Stamina 5, anteriora 2 fertilia, antheris glabris connatis, 
loculis divaricatis, superiora 3 sterilia, tubo omnino adnata, apice tuberculiformia. 
Ovarium teres, elongatum, rectum, 1-loculare, fere 4-loculare, placentis 2 didymis 
lamellis conniventibus dissepimentum spurium formantibus utrinque revolutis 
margine ovuliferis. Stylus linearis. Stigma bilabiatum, lobis reniformibus infe- 
riore vix majore. Capsula siliqueeformis, teres, apice depressa, spiraliter torta, 
loculicide dehiscens, ovarii structure: conformis, Semina plurima, minuta, ob- 
longa.—Herbee Austro-Africane, acaules, cespitose vel caulescentes. Folia op- 
posita, Scapi plurimi, 1- (2- vel pluri-\flori, juniores circinatim involuti. Corolle 
pallide ceruleo-purpurascentes, intus lineis purpureis notate. De Cand. 
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Srreprocareus polyanthus ; foliis omnibus yadicalibus humifusis amplis cor- 
dato-oblongis crenatis rugosis pubescentibus, scapo elongato bifido ramis 
paniculatis plurifloris, corollis hypocrateriformibus, tubo curvato, limbo 
valde obliquo profunde 5-lobo, lobis cuneatis dentatis. 
Among the roots of some living Ferns, kindly brought to us 
from Natal by Captain Garden, there appeared, in the summer 
of 1853, seedlings of a plant, whose leaves, few in number and 
pressed close to the soil, gradually developed themselves, till the 
larger ones, in the following season (December), became a foot 
long. From between the sinuses of these leaves and directly 
from the root there emerged one to three scapes, attaining al- 
together a foot in height, bearing good-sized panicles of pale- 
blue flowers, which proved to be those of an undescribed, if not 
wholly unknown, species, of the curious genus Sfreptocarpus, 
such as we have here represented; but it was quite impossible 
to include the entire foliage in an octavo page. A dried speci- 
men of the same plant, and from the same country, We Possess. 
in our Herbarium, from our friend Mr. Sanderson ; and it is, 
MAY Ist, 1855. 
