NAT. ORDER. 



Acantlmceai. 



STROBILANTHES SABINIANA. SABINES STROBILANTHES. 



0,ass XIV. DiDYNAMiA. Order II. Angiospermia. 



Gen. Cliar. Calyx^ five-parted. Corolla, wheel-shaped. Anthers, 

 erect, located in clustei-s. Capsule, medium transparent. 



SiK. Char. — Herbaceous plants. Stem, upright, branching-. Floicers, 

 in terminal spikes. Leaves, lanceolate, entire. 



The stem is from two to three feet high, shmbby below, and much 

 branched ; the branches are erect, glabrous, and the younger ones 

 quadrangular ; the leaves are opposite, unequal, oval, much acumina- 

 ted, oblique, obscurely crenato-serrate, and tapering at the base into a 

 winged petiole, which is often of a fine pui-ple beneath ; nci-ves oblique, 

 united by reticulated nervelets, slightly prominent above, much so be- 

 low ; spUces axillary and terminal ; hracteas imbricated, in four rows, 

 broadly ovate or rounded, colored, somewhat spreading, crenate below, 

 clothed with glandular down ; calyx in five deep-colored, spathulato 

 segments ; corolla funnel-shaped, the lower part of the tube yellow 

 and much curved, the rest bright bluish pui-ple, pitted and reticulated ; 

 the limb is composed of five nearly equal rounded lobes ; filaments de- 

 clined, haiiy at the base on one side, the two longer ones reaching a 

 little beyond the mouth ; style rather longer than the longest stamens. 



This is a most beautiful liot-house plant, a native of Nepal, from 

 whence it was first introduced into the British gardens by Dr. Wallich, 

 who named it in compliment to Joseph Sabine, Esq., to whom Horti- 

 culture, noless than Natural Histoiy in general, is most deeply indebt- 

 ed. Its flowering season with us, in the cultivated state, is the latter 



Vol. III.— 171. 



