Tas. 4851. 
THYRSACANTHUS ScuomBurGkKIANUs. 
Schomburgk’s Thyrsacanthus. 
Nat. Ord. ACANTHACEZ.—D1anpRIA Monoeynia. 
Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Tas. 4378.) 
THYRSACANTHUS rutilans; fruticosa, ramis subtetragonis, foliis subsessilibus 
lato-lanceolatis acuminatis inferne attenuatis pilosulis margine subintegerri- 
mis, racemis axillaribus terminulibusque laxis longis pendulis plurifloris, 
bracteis floralibus subulatis, pedicellis brevibus, floribus oppositis, calycibus 
5-partitis pilosis laciniis subeequalibus subulatis, corolle infundibuliformi- 
tubulosze coccinez limbo parvo 5-lobo lobis subzequalibus erecto-patentibus, 
staminibus inclusis sterilibus brevibus capitatis. 
Tuyrsacantuus Schomburgkianus. Nees in Benth. Pl. Schomb. Lond. Journ. of 
Bot. 1845, p. 636. ”. 71 e¢ 147, et in Herb. Nostr. De Cand. Prodr. v. 11. 
p. 325. 
Tuyrsacantuus rutilans. Planchon and Linden (coloured figure circulated). 
Paxton’s Fl. Gard. v. 3. p. 73 (with woodcut). * 
One of the most striking plants exhibited by the Horticultural 
Society during their interesting winter meetings in Regent-street 
(1854—5) was undoubtedly that of which the present is a figure 
of a small specimen. The shrub is a native of South America, 
and would appear to have a very extended range. Its discovery 
is due to C. 8. Parker, Esq., in British Guiana, where Sir Robert 
Schomburgk afterwards detected it; and it has lately been 
found by Mr. Schlim in New Granada, near Ocafia, at an eleva- 
tion of 4000 feet above the level of the sea, and has been dis- 
persed by the Belgian Gardens. It seems to flower in the stove 
nearly all the year round. Dr. Lindley remarks of it, when al- 
luding to the winter plants flowering in the Horticultural So- 
ciety’s Garden (Chron. March 3, 1855): “ One of the most or- 
namental of these is Thyrsacanthus rutilans, a stove-plant, as yet 
scarcely known; but which should be in every collection, as it 
really is one of the handsomest things that has been introduced 
MAY Ist, 1855. 
