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" Fl. Gard." iii. 73, f. 266. — Colombia. Leaves sessile, oblong- 

 lanceolate, with a long acumination at the apex, entire or 

 obscurely dentate ; racemes axillary and terminal, 1 foot or rather 

 more long, pendent ; flowers crimson, solitary in the axils of the 

 bracts, the lower ones often twin or ternate ; corolla tubular, 

 ventricose except quite at the base, slightly contracted at the apex, 

 lobes very small, equal, erect ; stamens included in the tube. 



This species is the one most grown, and is in evidence often at 

 flower shows. It is a charming winter-flowering stove plant. The 

 easiest treatment is to put in cuttings every spring after the 

 plants have finished flowering ; these, if grown on in good heat 

 and well pinched in, flower well the next winter without any 

 special treatment as to rest, &c. If large plants are required the 

 old ones must be potted on into larger pots and well fed, but 

 without much care and attention the result is leggy and 

 unsightly specimens. These larger specimens are very grand 

 when well done. 



Sehomburg-kianus, Hook., "Jour, of Bot." iv. (1845), 636 (not 

 figured). — British Guiana. This has not, I believe, been intro- 

 duced ; it is very closely allied to rutilans, but the corolla lobes 

 are larger and rather unequal, and the stamens are well exserted 

 beyond the corolla tube ; the leaves also are broader. There are 

 specimens in the Herbarium at Kew. It has been confounded 

 with rutilans in Nicholson's "Diet." 



StrietUS, Nees, DC. "Prod." xi. 324; (fig. "Bot. Mag." t. 4378).— 

 Honduras. Leaves oblong, acuminate, thyrse terminal, elongate, 

 simple, narrow, 1 foot long ; bracts subulate ; flowers fascicled, 

 red ; corolla 1 inch long, lobes oblong acute. Syn. Eranthemum 

 coccineum, "Fl. des Serres," t. 240 ; Justicia longiracemosa. 

 Warpuria 



Clandestina, Stapf, "Kew Bull." 1908, pt. vi. p. 261— Madagascar. 

 A small low herb. Leaves lanceolate, slightly scalloped, strigose 

 on the midrib above and margins (under the lens), veins hairy 

 on lower surface, of a peculiarly beautiful crystalline pale 

 green above, with a broad zigzag intensely black band down 

 each side of the midrib ; inflorescence a small globular head of 

 very minute flowers, mixed with strigose bracts on a longish, 

 axillary, strigose peduncle, i 



This interesting foliage plant has been recently described as a 

 new genus by Dr. Stapf. The loaves are exceedingly beautiful, and 

 in its way it is quite a gem ; the flowers, which are most 

 insignificant, should be cut off as they appear. 

 Whitfieldia 



lateritia, Hook. (fig. " Bot. Mag." t. 4155).— Sierra Leone. Stove 

 shrub. Leaves opposite, ovate, subcoriaceous ; racemes terminal ; 

 llowers brick-red, solitary in the axils of the bracts, subcampanulate ; 

 calyx brick-red, ample, half length of corolla. See also "Fl. des 

 Serres," 32. A very handsome stove shrub. 



