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divided. ‘Bracts subulate, one on the outside of each pedicel, and 
about half its length, deciduous, two similar but smaller bracts are 
placed opposite to each other about the middle of the pedicels, and 
from the axils of these other flowers push or prove abortive. CaLyx 
five-parted, segments green, subulate, erect, and very similar to the 
bracts. Coro.ta funnel-shaped, yellow, streaked and sprinkled with 
red on the inside of the throat and base of the lacinie; tube cylin- 
drical, and nearly twice as long as the calyx; faux campanulate, 
crowned with five bipartite blunt white teeth; limb cut into five linear 
segments (about two inches long) which in the bud form a long twisted 
beak, but afterwards spread wide... FrLaMENTs swollen below, adhering 
by their backs to the tube of the corolla, and, as well as the inside of 
the campanulate portion of this, hairy; anthers sagitate, adhering to 
each other and to the stigma, each terminated by along awn. GERMEN 
round, lobular, green. STYLE stout, cylindrical, white; stigma 
angular. 
PopuLaR aND GEOGRAPHICAL Notice. There are only a few 
species of this remarkable genus known, but these are scattered through 
China, Cochin-china, the coast of Coromandel, and the western part 
of Africa. We have had the present species in cultivation for many 
years, and it has never shown the smallest tendency to acquire a 
climbing stem, but as its roots have been confined it is not impossible 
that its habit, as occasionally happens to other plants in similar cir- 
cumstances, may be altered in this respect. 
INTRODUCTION; WHERE GROWN; CuLTuRE. Seedling plants were 
-sent to the Botanic Garden, Edinburgh, many years ago from Valley- 
field, the seat of the late Sir Robert Preston, but I never could learn 
their history. Specimens collected by Messrs. Bladh and Staunton, 
in the neighbourhood of Macao, and preserved in the Banksian 
Herbarium, seem to be identical. It is cultivated in common mould, 
kept in moderate stove heat, and flowers very freely every year 
in June. 
DertvaTIon OF THE Names. 
SrropHantuvs, from orpogoc and ayoc, in allusion to the strap-shaped seg- 
ments of the corolla. 
SynonyMes. 
SrRoPHANTHUs DIVERGENS. Graham: in Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal, 
June, | 
Seivraierave DICHOTOMUS; 8. CHINENsIs. Bot. Reg. 469. Grau 
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