Tas. 4862. 
STREPTOCARPUS Garpent. 
Captain Garden’s Streptocarpus. 
Nat. Ord. DipymocarPEm.—D1ANDRIA Monoeyn1a. 
Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Tas. 4850.) 
Srreprocarrus Gardeni; foliis omnibus radicalibus humifusis oblongo-ovatis 
basi cordatis pubescenti-velutinis crispatis rugosis crenatis, scapis plurimis 
bifloris, floribus nutantibus, segmentis calycinis apice patentibus, corolle 
tubo elongato curvato, limbo bilabiato, labio inferiore porrecto, stigmate 
distincte umbilicato. 
We had the satisfaction, at our Tab. 4850, of figuring a new 
Streptocarpus, S. polyanthus, from Natal ; and we have now the 
opportunity of representing another new species of this handsome 
genus from the same country, and derived through the same gen- 
tleman as sent us that, viz. our obliging friend Captain Garden. 
The affinity of the present, it will be at once seen, is with the 
well-known S. Revit; but it is nevertheless quite distinct, both 
in foliage and in flowers. The leaves are longer and handsomer, 
more ovate in form, more rugose and more wrinkled, and cor- 
date at the base. The scapes are almost invariably two-flowered : 
the calyx has the segments patent at their apices. The corolla, 
though of nearly the same size, is different in form and incolour; 
uniform pale-blue in 8. Rewii, here the tube is green or greenish- 
white, and the limb lilac ; moreover the tube is much broader (not 
suddenly contracted in the lower half), slightly curved down- — 
wards; and the limb, instead of spreading mto five nearly a 
equally spreading lobes, is more decidedly two-lipped, the two 
lobes of the upper lip moderately patent, and the three com- 
posing the lower lip porrected or standing forward : the lines on 
the lower lip, instead of being blue and continuous, are sangul- 
neous, and interrupted in dots or short streaks: the stigma too os 
is different. The plant flowers copiously in a warm greenhouse - 
during the summer months. It is not a little remarkable that 
JULY Ist, 1855, 
