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Sanchezia 



longiflora, Hook. (fig. "Bot. Mag." t. 5588); " Fl. des Serres," 

 t. 2460. — Guayaquil. Leaves ample, oblong to lanceolate; 

 panicles branched, elongate, drooping, purple-coloured ; flowers 

 2 inches long, tubular, and with the calyx and pedicels of a rich 

 purple colour. Syn. Ancylogync longiflora. 



nobilis, Hook. (fig. "Bot. Mag." t. 5594); "Flor. des Serres," t. 

 2437.— Ecuador. Shrub. Leaves up to 9 inches long, oblong 

 to lanceolate ; flowers in an erect, terminal, dense panicle with 

 purple branches ; bracts red, 1^ inch long, each pair enclosing 

 about 10 flowers ; corolla yellow, 2 inches long, cylindric, curved. 



var. glaucophylla. — Leaves glaucous-green, striped with 

 yellow. This variety is very much grown, more for its beautifully 

 coloured foliage than for its flowers. 



parvibracteata, Sprague & Hutch, in "Kew Bull." for 1908. — 

 Allied to S. nobilis, but petioles not winged, bracts smaller, 

 flowers fewer, staminodes larger. Received at Kew from the 

 Perideniya Gardens in Ceylon. 



Schaueria 



calycotricha, Nees, DC. "Prod." xi. 316 ; (fig. Hook. "Exotic Fl." 

 t. 212). — Brazil. Leaves broadly ovate, glabrous, scarcely acumi- 

 nate, long-petioled ; thyrse terminal, subspicate ; flowers yellow, 

 about as long as the calyx segments ; calyx and bracts yellowish- 

 green, puberulous ; corolla tube slender, 1^ inch long, pubescent, 

 upper lip entire. Syn. Justicia calycotricha. 



flavicoma, Lindley, "Bot. Reg." t. 1027 ; (fig. " Bot. Mag." t. 2816, 

 as calycotricha) ; Lcdd. "Bot. Cab." t. 1921.— Leaves lanceolate, 

 very acuminate, short-petioled, minutely downy, the midrib and 

 main veins very pale-coloured or whitish ; panicles terminal 

 furnished with numerous, peculiar, hair-like processes ; bracts 

 and calyx shorter than corolla ; calyx white with gland- tipped 

 hairs ; corolla smooth, 2-lipped, upper lip emarginate. 



These two species have been very much confused. They are 

 perhaps only varieties of one. 

 Stenandrium 



igneum = Chamaeranthemum igrieum. 



Lindenii, N. E. Brown (fig. "111. Hort." (1891), t. 136).— Brazil and 

 Peru. A dwarf foliage plant. Leaves opposite, elliptic obovate, 

 obtuse, dark green, shaded lighter towards the centre, the main 

 veins yellow ; spikes cylindric, erect ; flowers yellow. 



S. Beeckmannianum, " 111. Hort." (.1892), t. 166, and 

 Goosensianum, "111. Hort." (1893), t. 168, are garden hybrids. 

 The latter has leaves variegated with green and yellow and 

 margined with brown. 

 Strobilanthes, Blume. — The name given in allusion to the inflores- 

 cence, which often resembles a strobile or fir cone. A very large 

 genus of nearly 200 species, most abundant in the damper and 

 denser mountain forests of India, Burma, and Ceylon, from the 

 plains up to high elevations. They are often gregarious, and one 

 can walk through acres and acres of the same species forming 



