90 SIOYE PLANTS. 



Islands and in South America. The leaves are opposite, fleshy 

 in texture, and generally hairy ; and the flowers are tuhular. 

 They are splendid companion plants for ^schynanthus, and 

 succeed admirably if treated in a similar manner. 



C. aurantiaca. — A very fine species, unfortunately now 

 rarely met with. The flowers are of a very deep rich orange 

 colour. It makes a beautiful basket plant. Native of New 

 Grenada. 



C. aureo-nitens. — This plant is very distinct and singular 

 in its appearance, having the Igaves broadly lanceolate and 

 densely villous, and the flowers of a rich deep orange red. 

 Native of Columbia. 



C. eryihroplima. — A fine species, with lanceolate leaves, 

 tapering to a point, oblique at the base, and of a rich deep 

 green. The flowers are large, produced singly from the 

 axils of the leaves, bright red, with the large spreading 

 calyx blotched with red inside. A most beautiful plant, 

 from Mexico. 



C. scandeiu. — A handsome species, having ovate-acute 

 serrated leaves, clothed with a few soft hairs, and deep 

 green in colour. The long tubular flowers are hairy, and 

 of a bright scarlet colour. Native of shady woods in the 

 West Indies. 



C. Schiedeana. — The leaves of this species are oblong- 

 lanceolate, and covered with short, soft hairs. The flowers 

 are upwards of two inches long, the ground colour yellow, 

 most curiously and densely spotted and dotted with brown. 

 Native of Mexico. 



COMBBETUM. 



The plants of this order adorn the forest trees of the 

 tropics with immense festoons and garlands of their gay 

 flowers, and the species in cultivation are amongst the finest 



