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shaped, 5 inch long, tube curved and suddenly bent at the 

 middle. Called 1 Christmas Pride ' in Jamaica, as it flowers at 

 that season. 



Pearcei, Hook. (fig. " Bot. Mag." t. 5648). — Bolivia. Erect, glabrous 

 under shrub. Leaves short-petioled, lanceolate, acuminate, crenate, 

 purple underneath ; peduncles axillary, spreading, few-flowered ; 

 bracts linear ; calyx \ inch ; segments 5, linear ; flowers scarlet, 

 2^ inches long, erect, tube slender, slightly curved, very gradually 

 dilated upwards, lobes rather small, recurved. 



persicifolia (fig. " Bot. Reg." ii. t. 955) = Strobilanthes aniso- 

 phyllus. 



Portellae, Hook. (fig. "Bot, Mag." t. 6498).— Brazil. A small 

 low-spreading plant. Leaves petioled, small, elliptic-ovate, purple 

 beneath ; flowers axillary, solitary, sessile, rose-coloured, H inch 

 long ; tube slender, dilated above the middle ; limb flat, 1 inch 

 in diameter ; sepals \ inch long. 



Common in cultivation. It is best grown in a pan. 



pulchella = rubicaulis. 



Purdieana, Hook. (fig. "Bot. Mag." t. 4298).— Jamaica. Leaves 

 petioled, ovate, acuminate ; flowers large, crimson, terminal in 

 pairs, each with a very large pair of bracteoles ; corolla-tube much 

 elongated, limb of 5 waved lobes. See also Paxton's " Mag. of Bot." 

 xvi. p. 129. 



rosea, DC. " Prod." xi. 220, as Ophthalmacanthus roseus, Hemsl. 

 "Biol. Cent. Amer. Bot." ii. 607.— South Mexico, 5,000 feet eleva- 

 tion. A very hirsute plant with angled stems ; leaves ovate, obtuse, 

 about 1 inch long, on a short petiole ; peduncle 2-leaved towards 

 the apex, 1 -flowered ; flower sessile ; calyx 5-parted, glandular - 

 tomentose ; corolla 2 inches long, rose-coloured. 



rubicaulis, Cav. " Ic." v. 417.— Mexico. This is mentioned in the 

 Kew Hand List for 1899, p. 601. I have never seen it in cultiva- 

 tion. It is only of botanical interest. The plant now growing 

 under this name at Kew is Bucllia acutangula, var. hirsuta. 



Sabiniana, " Bot. Reg." xv. t. 1238 = Strobilanthes Sabinianus. 



Schaueriana, DC, "Prod." xi. 119; (fig. "Bot. Mag." t. 4147, as 

 Buellia lilacina). — Brazil. Leaves opposite, ovate, shining ; flowers 

 axillary, sessile, lilac-coloured and veined ; bracts two, large, leaf- 

 like, on very short petioles, 1 inch long, | inch broad ; corolla-tube 

 very long, funnel-shaped, curved, bent below the middle ; limb of 

 five rounded lobes. See also "Bot. Reg." xxxii. 45. Common in 

 cultivation. 



SOlitaria, Veil., " Fl. Flum." 266, vi. t. 95; (fig. "Bot. Mag." 



t. 5106, as Diptcracajithus calvcsccns) ; "Bot. Mag." t. 4366, as 

 Strobilantlics lactatus. — Brazil. Leaves opposite, about 2 inches 

 long, oblong or ovate-lanceolate, short-petioled, sometimes blotched 

 with white down the middle ; flowers solitary or twin, nearly sessile ; 

 bracts smaller and narrower than in B. Schaueriana ; corolla 

 lavender- blue, tube long, funnel-shaped, the lower half white; 

 bracts lanceolate, acuminate, larger than the calyx ; calyx 5-parted, 

 subulate. 



