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^ESCHYNANTHUS grandifloris. 



Large-flowered Blushwort. 



DIDYNAMIA ANGIOSPERMIA. 



Nut. ord. Cyrtandrace^e. 



JESCIIYNANTHUS. Botanical Register, 1841. fol. 28. 



M. grandiflorus ; caulibus simplicibus, foliis lanceolatis acuminatis coriaceis 

 dentatis integrisque, umbella terminali multiflora, floribus pedunculatis, 

 calycis campanulati glaberrimi laciniis lineari-oblongis obtusis, corollae 

 supra medium ventricosse laciniis rotundatis subaequalibus conniventibus, 

 staminibus long& exsertis, antberis olivaceis. 



iEscb. parasiticus. Wallich cat. no. 796. 



Incarvillea parasitica. Roxburgh Corom.pl. t. 291. 



iEscb. grandiflorus. Spreng. sgst. veg. 4. 238. 



Trichosporum grandiflorum. Don Frodr.fi. nep. 125. 



Of all the stove plants in cultivation this is one of the 

 handsomest and the most easy to manage. To say that the 

 accompanying figure is not only no exaggeration, but in truth 

 inferior in brilliancy and beauty to its original — c'est tout dire. 

 To cultivate it all that is required is a very damp stove, with 

 a log of wood to which a cutting may be tied ; it will immedi- 

 ately put forth its ivy-like roots, cling to the log, and speedily, 

 that is to say in a few months, convert itself into a pendulous 

 bush, every one of whose branches is terminated by a cluster 

 of deep scarlet flowers. No where have I seen it more beau- 

 tiful than in the Nursery of Mr. Henderson, of Pine Apple 

 Place, Edgware Road ; but in numerous places it is excessively 

 handsome. 



That it is the ^Eschynanthus parasiticus of Wallich is 

 certain ; and consequently it is in all probability the Incarvil- 

 lea parasitica of Roxburgh ; there is therefore no other ground 

 for admitting the name of JE. grandiflorus, now current in the 

 gardens, than that all the genus is parasitical, (that is epi- 



