THUNBERGIA CHRYSOPS. 
Acanthaceæ $ Thunbergiee. 一 Didynamia-Gymnospermia. 
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CHARACT. GENER. — Calyx basi re solitariis v. racemosis; corollis speciosis luteis v. 
SE égen truncatus v. pluridentatus. Co- | ceruleis, fauce plerumque saturatioribus 
olla hypogyna campanulato - EN ptica, Gen 1. 4027. 
Ge inflata, سب‎ ape Wa in Base gn te garg ali. ergia Linn. f. Supp. 46 et à 2S Illustr. 
. 183. Ness 
‚4, corolle tubo a didyna an- < 1549. ar Gen. Pl. 103, Gears. f. III. 
here tte? loculis Wer Co Ste bar- Waıtic Plant. As. rar. HI. 77. et in Lm. Nat. Syst. 
batis , altero breviore aristato. Ovarium biloculare, | ed. 2. 444. Linnea VI. 748. Reco. Fl. exot. t 169. ۰ 
is, Stylus si i 
loculis biovulat lus simplex; stigma infu Gen. Pl, 293 (202). Roxsuncn E orom. t vm Penn 
dibuliforme transversim cu tum. Capsula basi | Exot. Flor. t. 166. 177. Bot. Reg. t. 495. Bot. Mag. 
globosa bilocularis, in rostrum conicum angustata | 3508. 3515). vac den Sinê. Ce 1. 622. eg 
on loculicide bili m. medio sep- | sp. Hamırr. mse 
tiferis. Sem globos m rato annulo CHARACT. SPECIEI : T. Foliis cordatis irae rd 
late calloso cincta. Embryonis Ce minosi co- feo: e: pedunculis regen eg 
tyledones ECH ا‎ radicula bre- 1 for calyce 
re infera 
, bracteis 
theris d Go زج‎ ato an? psec A 
es indici et capenses; foliis oppositis cor- | stigmate foliaceo bilobo, stylo apice barbato. 
ditio: ee; floribus azillaribus pedunculatis Thunbergia chr rysops Hook. Bot. Mag. t. 4119. 
Texte du Botanical Magazine de M. Hooker. 
THUNBERGIA CHRYSOP S. 
GOLDEN EYED PURPLE THUNBERGIA. 
CLASS AND ORDER . 
NATURAL ORDER. 
see above. 
GENERIC CHARACTER . . . . 
SPECIFIC NAME AND CHARACTER 
This most lovely new species of Thunbergia is one of the many rarities which Mr. Whitfield has, 
not without great danger and risk, رب‎ from the interior of Sierra Leone, to the Right Hono- 
rable the Earl of Derby; and our stove in the Royal Botanic Gardens ot Kew, wé many other stoves 
we believe in this country, are pore) to his Lordship for the possession of it. The same gentle- 
man, Mr. Whitfield, has likewise introduced to Knowsley, and through the same distinguished no- 
SN to Kew, the curious Napoleona imperialis and the African Teak, or African Oak, as it is 
frequently called. Our new Thunbergia has the merit of not only being very beautiful, but easily 
eultivated in a stove, eg increased by cuttings, soon — and bearing a succession of blos- 
soms to compensate for the short duration of each individua 
Descr. Stems climbing, slender, herbaceous, slightly hairy. Sech opposite, petiolate, cordate, or 
sometimes ovato-cordate, acute, or slightly — angulato-dentate at the margin, five or 
seven-nerved with transverse veins; petiole tereti-compre , not at all winged. Peduncles axillary, 
solitary, single-flowered, shorter than the petiole. ege two, large, ovate, appressed to the 
base of the flower. Calyz truncated, forming, as it were, a large, fleshy disk, within the slightly 
lobed or raised edge of which, the base of the corolla is inserted. Corolla |, 
dibuliform ; the tube yellow, much contracted at the base, widening upwards, and becoming of à 
rich purple on the مس‎ five-lobed limb, of a blue cast near the mouth, which ن‎ the 
full yellow throat (or eye) of the giän whence the specific . Stamens four, didynamous, 
included; Anthers sagittate, the base e lobes with وم‎ ge sen ermen green, ovate, 
on a ben. fleshy disk, besides the p^ which fills the short calyx. Style filiform, as long 
nearly so, as the tube of the corolla, bearded above. Stigma of two large, leafy, yellow, plaited 
es. 
