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WHITFIELDIA ۸, 
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Acanthaceæ  Barlerieæ, 一 ey 
CHARACT. GENERIS. Calyx amplus colora- 
tus subinfundibuliformis b bei bibracteatus profunde 
4-5 fidus, la s lanceolatis acutis erectis con- 
cavis u Se ot s sepissime coloratis majus- 
culis oppositis obovatis acutis trinerviis appressis. 
Corolla infi mi-campanulata mis n 
, limbo bilabiato pa- 
abio superiore minore bifido, INO tri- 
fido, > omnibus Get acutis. Stamina 4, 
di idyna a fere teen Ze quinto — 
filamen ie glabra; anthe 
loculares, loculi 8 سس‎ longitudinaliter de- 
hiscentibus. Ovarium compre gla- 
brum biloculare, locu lis iovulatis fi ad- 
scendentibus. Discus hypogynus nsi carnosus 
cupuliformis; Stylus stamina. vix ری ی‎ ul flifor- 
hell ramosus glaber, ramis ۱ patentibus flexuosis. 
ics pennineroia. Racemi terminales subse- 
cundi deflext. P 
teati, bracteis ^x mem ی‎ coloratis 
— oppositis foliaceis). Flores su ee 
. Ca alycibus Regie مس ماود‎ cinis 0 
dui "loterit tiis. infra c 
CHARACT. SPECIEI. — Ze species unica بت‎ 
infraque descripta 
Whitfieldia lateritia Hoox. Bot. Mag. t. 4155. 
Texte du Botanicul Magazine de M. Hooker. 
WHITFIELDIA LATERITIA. 
BRICK-COLORED WHITFIELDIA. 
Eryw "Thomas Whitfield, a botanist-traveller. 
GENERIC CHARACTER. | ae 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 
Our plant, here figured, is a very desirable inmate of the stove, forming a small bushy shrub, with 
spreading branches and epum evergreen foliage; the branches terminated by racemes of flowers of 
, of which the calyx and corolla, and often large bracteas, are of one uniform 
e many novelties brought home to Lord Derby from the nion of 
us of Acanthaceæ, I can refer it to no described one; though its affinity (yet 
not very close) is probably m— Geissomeria Lindl., and I have dedicated it to Thomas Whitfield, 
q., who, he risk of his mt as we SC: reason to know, with much injury to his con- 
stitution , bei made several HAUTE o, and journies into, the interior of Western-tropical Africa , 
and Kë extensive collections of Wie plants and animals. The majority of these have been sent 
to the Right Hon. the Earl of Derby; and the Royal Gardens of Kew have not failed to benefit by 
that distinguished nobleman's love and s of science. re 
red, we are indebted for the « African Teak » 0 » as 
as to its Genus), the ۵ a the splendid Gardenia Stanleyan 
figured in th is "most "d three other species of the Genus, the brilliantly-colored Thunbergia 
sops (see our Tab. , and many other rarities. Our deier was made at Kew, in October 1844; 
and the same kat was Ke flowering in March 1 
. A low shrub; with spreading, terete, yr tortuous branches; and opposite, evergreen, 
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entire, ovate or oblong-ovate , وا‎ mrep dp d, penninerved leaves. Petioles short, flat or slightly 
ite above. Racemes terminal. icels Ane (brachiate or cruciate), drooping, bracteated at 
the base ; bracteas eg ee, the lowest pair leaflike. Two other large, ovate, 
