Tas. 4881. 
PHYGELIUS Capensts. 
Cape Phygelius. 
Nat. Ord. Scropnunarracem.—DIpyNAMIA GYMNOSPERMIA. 
Gen. Char. Calyx 5-partitus. Corolle tubus elongatus, incurvus, limbi valde ~ 
obliqui laciniis rotundatis. Stamina declinata, exserta, quinti rudimentum ad 
basin corolle minimum. Antherarum loculi paralleli, apice vix confluentes. Cap- 
sula valde obliqua, loculo postico multo majore, apice tardius septicide dehiscens, 
valvulis integris ? vel irregulariter disruptis? Semina ovoidea, subangulata ; testa 
crassiuscula, spongiosa.—Genus Austro-Africanum, foliis Scrophularie, inflores- 
- centia e¢ floribus Pentstemoni affine. Benth. 
PHYGELIUS Capensis, 
PuyGeius Capensis.. Z. Mey. MSS. Benth. in Comp. to Bot. Mag. v.2. p. 53. 
Fielding, Sert. Plant. t. 66, 67. Benth. in De Cand. Prodr. v. 10. p. 300. 
This beautiful plant, only recently discovered in Caffreland, at 
Witbergen, on the sides of streams, by Drege, has very little the 
habit of a plant of those regions, but reminds.one singularly of 
the Pentstemons of North America. It was named Phygelius by 
Ernest Meyer, probably from duyn, flight, shunning, or eschewing ; 
in consequence of its having so long escaped the résearches of 
botanists. Our noble flowering specimen was sent by Messrs. 
Veitch, of the Exeter and Chelsea Nurseries, where it came to 
great perfection in the open border in the summer months, and 
promises to ripen seed : if it does, the plant will prove a great 
acquisition to our gardens. It will, too, in all probability, in- 
crease by cuttings, for the lower part of the plant at least is 
perennial and shrubby: but it may require a greenhouse to pro- 
tect it in the winter. The Witbergen is, we believe, however, a 
very elevated mountain ; though we know not the height of the 
locality of this plant above the level of the sea,—probably suffi- 
ciently to justify an opinion of its being perfectly hardy. 
Descr. Plant two to three feet high, including its panicle, 
erect, below shrubby, above herbaceous, branched, everywhere 
glabrous ; branches four-sided, angles winged. Leaves opposite, 
the lower ones moderately large, four to five inches long (ex- 
NOVEMBER Ist, 1855. 
