APHELANDRA AURANTIACA, 
TO 
Acanthaceæ $ Echmatacantheæ-(1) Aphelandreæ. 一 Didynamia-Angiospermia. 
CHARACT. GENERIS. an یاس‎ ci R. Br. 
Calyx 5-partitus inæqualis. Co a hypogyna 
ringens, labio superiore ee Erna > in- 
ferioris re € lateralibus multo minori 
d d a roin inclusa didynama; 
æ tubo 
Gees Se ares m varium bilocu 
Mio; locui pes is. رد‎ i mplex; s denk 
apsula teretiuscula leste tetras- 
bifidum 
perma e baki, valvis ses. Sey edid 
II. T Hooker Jc. t. 113. Synandra Schrad. in Neuwied 
Reise II 343. Hem ph Nees, mse. Justicia cristata Jacq. 
Hort. Sieg, t. 320. J. pulcherrima Jacq. Ic. rar. t. 204. 
Exorıca., Gen. pl. 3074. 
CHARACT. SPECIEI. — A. foliis oblongis glabris 
asi undulatis in petiolum brevem 'deourrentibus, 
Er simplicibus ietragonis, bracteis ovatis acumi- 
serratis, corollæ laciniis ovatis ac زد بر‎ 
Intörelikte duplo Sovrin Lin 
Semina compressa retinaculis subte 
Am ericæ tropicæ; foliis oppositis ; ; spicis axillaribus Aphelandra aurantiaca Lino. Bot. Reg. t.12. سيت‎ 
et terminalibus tetragonis; bracteis oppositis sub- Hemiandra (nec Hesemasandra ut sc SEN 
membranaceis; Die eier Se: وسيم‎ rore cel. auctor anglicanus) aurantiac 
sis rubicundis. 
Hemiandra R. Br. Genus Labiatarum nec Acan- 
helandra R. Br. Prodr. 475. in not. Bot. Mag. t. 1578. 
thacearum!). 
۳ Reg. t. 1477. Kunth in Humb. et Bonpl. Nov. gen. et sp. j ) 
Texte du Botanical Register de M. Lindley. 
APHELANDRA AURANTIACA. 
ORANGE APHELANDRA. 
Ervworocm. gëtige, Smouth, simple; dyp, a man; botanically a stamen. 
GEN CHARACTER | lg: eet 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 
This is the handsomest stove shrub that has been introduced for a long time, and in the esti- 
mation e sch: tivators must class with Ixora coccinea, Aphelandra cristata, the Hindsias, Jacquinia 
aurantiaca, and other front-rank species 
It was exhibited at a late meeting of the Horticultural ی‎ by Mr. Henderson of Pine Apple 
ot to be found in any Botanical books 
了 been Hemiandra (half anther), 
; but Hemiandra is re 
totally different plant. 
Can it be Schrader's Synandra amana و‎ the Aphelandra ignea of Nees von Esenbeck? concerning 
which we find nothing beyond the nam Dietrich’s Synopsis plantarum. 
e have only seen it on the occasion EP alluded to, but we could not then perceive any es, 
to separate it from the well-known genus Aphelandra, ge thither it is accordingly now 
Colourers are quite unable to give the soft and brilliant glow of the rich orange-coloured flowers, 
Peri may perhaps be compared with that of the ripest side of a Brussels Apricot Ke coated by 
varn 
man presume that some part of South America is the origin of the plant, but upo 
have no information. 
n that point we 
(1) Nous ne pouvons comprendre pourquoi Nees a écrit Echmacantathi? au mase. ?Cn. L. 
