corolla-tube. The cultural treatment most suitable to 
S. Rexit appears to be that under which S. cyaneus grows 
best and thrives most satisfactorily. Like the other species 
and varieties of Streptocarpus in cultivation, this one is 
shortlived, and like them it might almost be termed a 
biennial, at all events most of the forms are at their best 
in their second year. Mr. Brown ‘is of opinion that 
individual flowers in this species cannot be self-fertilised, 
the anthers being so closely pressed together that although 
open on their opposed faces no pollen can be shed until 
they are separated, and as the anthers are closely pressed 
against the style a little below the stigma, it is difficult to 
conceive that any pollen should reach the stigma without 
insect aid. 
Descriprion.—Herb, perennial, but for cultural purposes 
sub-biennial, stemless. Leaves many, radical, prostrate, sub- 
sessile or narrowed to a petiole, narrowly elongate-oblong 
or oblong-lanceolate, obtuse, crenate, slightly bullately 
rugose, 25-84 in. long, 2-2 in. wide, roughly pubescent 
on both sides, green above, paler beneath; petiole 0-2 in. 
long. Scapes erect, 3-6 in. long, almost always 2-flowered, 
pubescent like the pedicels and the flowers outside with 
simple and gland-tipped spreading hairs; pedicels 4-2 in. 
long. Sepals % in. long, linear, obtuse or subacute. Corolla 
narrowly funnel-shaped ; tube 2-1} in. long, white with 
a yellow streak within; limb oblique, unequally 5-lobed ; 
lobes 4-1 in, long, under 3 in. wide, suborbicular or orbi- 
cular-oblong, variable in colour, blue or rose-mauve or 
Ag with the centre of the upper lobes blue and of 
the lower lobes streaked with red. Stamens included ; 
filaments curved upwards, white dotted above with golden- 
brown glands; anthers closely touching, adpressed to the 
style below the stigma. Disk orange-yellow. Ovary softly 
pubescent, green ; style white, glandular-pubescent ; stigma 
white, hollowed in the centre. 
Fig. 1, calyx and pistil; 2, part of cal isk; § 
, caly “eS yx removed, showing the disk; 3, part 
of corolla, laid open to show stamens and staminodes; 4, anthers with apices 
of filaments :—all enlarged. 
