NAT. ORDER. 
Acanthacece. 
STROBILANTHES SABINIANA. SABINES STROBILANTHES. 
Class XIV. Didynamia. Order II. Angiospermia. 
Gen. Char. Calyx, five-parted. Corolla, wheel-shaped. Anthers, 
erect, located in clusters. Capsule, medium transparent. 
Spe. Cliar. — Herbaceous plants. Stem, upright, branching-. Flowers, 
in terminal spikes. Leaves, lanceolate, entire. 
The stem is from two to three feet high, shrubby below, and much 
branched; the branches are erect, glabrous, and the younger ones 
quadrangular ; the leaves are opposite, unequal, oval, much acumina- 
ted, oblique, obscurely crenato-serrate, and tapering 1 at the base into a 
winged petiole, which is often of a fine purple beneath ; nerves oblique, 
united by reticulated nervelets, slightly prominent above, much so be- 
low ; spikes axillary and terminal ; hracteas imbricated, in four rows, 
broadly ovate or rounded, colored, somewhat spreading, crenate below, 
clothed with glandular down ; calyx in five deep-colored, spathulate 
segments ; corolla funnel-shaped, the lower part of the tube yellow 
and much curved, the rest bright bluish purple, pitted and reticulated ; 
the limb is composed of five nearly equal rounded lobes ; filaments de- 
clined, hairy at the base on one side, the two longer ones reaching a 
little beyond the mouth ; style rather longer than the longest stamens. 
This is a most beautiful hot-house plant, a native of Nepal, from 
whence it was first introduced into the British gardens by Dr. Wallich, 
who named it in compliment to Joseph Sabine, Esq., to whom Horti- 
culture, no less than Natural History in general, is most deeply indebt- 
ed. Its flowering season with us, in the cultivated state, is the latter 
Vol. hi.— 171. 
