January 2, 1895.] 



Garden and Forest. 



New or Little-known Plants. 



Streptocarpus Dyeri. 



THIS is a hybrid between two of the largest mono- 

 phyllous species, Streptocarpus Dunnii, an account 

 and iigure of which will be found in Garden and Forest 



through the year till within a few weeks ago. The accom- 

 panying illustration on this page is from the photograph 

 of a specimen formed of three plants grown together in a 

 pan, and which, when at its best, was one of the hand- 

 somest and most striking flower pictures I have seen for a 

 long time. Each plant had a single leaf two feet long and 







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Fig. I Streptocarpus Dyeri. 



(vol. iii., page 609), and S. Wendlandii, noted in the 

 last volume of Garden and Forest (page 134). Both spe- 

 cies were in flower together in the summer of 1892, when 

 they were crossed with each other, the seedlings thus 

 obtained flowering in the spring of this year and on all 



fifteen inches wide, colored rich olive-green above, vinous 

 purple below, and clothed with soft hairs. The bright 

 red-purple flowers formed a sheaf nearly two feet high. 

 One specimen, a single plant, had an enormous leaf, from 

 the base of which sprang si.K erect stout racemes, the tallest 



