SIPHOCAMPYLUS BETUL^FOLIA. 
(Birch-leaved SiphocampyUis. 
Class. 
PENTANDRIA. 
MONOGYNIA. 
Natural Order. 
LOBELIACE^. 
Generic Character.— CaZ</jf five-lobed, tube turbi- 
nate or hemispherical. Corolla with the tube generally 
ventricose towards tlie top, and considerably recurved, 
entire, or very rarely cleft to the base, and seldom en- 
tire at the summit ; limb five-lobed, shorter than the 
tube, two-lipped ; upper two lobes often larger , reflexed, 
lower three generally shorter. Stamens connate. An- 
thers in the lower part of the flower bearded at the 
summit, or rarely all hairy. 
Specific Character.— Ptoni an evergreen shrub, two 
feet or more in height. <S<^m branching, round, glabrous. 
Leaves alternate, petiolate, ovate-acuminate, subcor- 
dately triangular, doubly serrated, nearly smooth. 
Calyx with the segments subulate, serrulate, acute. 
Corolla slightly curved, bright red ; lobes narrow-lan- 
ceolate, acute, deep yellow. Stamens and style a little 
exserted. 
One of the many liandsome things sent to Britain by Mr. Gardner, from 
Brazil. It was found by that collector on the Organ Mountains, where, observes 
Sir W". J. Hooker, " Sello, its original discoverer, had probably previously procured 
it." It was most likely received primarily at the Glasgow Botanic Gardens, from 
whence it was distributed to several collections. 
In the Botanical Magazine for last month, it is supposed that it bloomed for 
the first time in Europe at the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew, in July last ; but 
we saw it in bloom, quite at the beginning of the present year, in the nursery of 
Messrs. Young, Epsom, and the drawing now furnished was made from a flower- 
ing plant belonging to these gentlemen, in May 1842. It had been obtained 
from the Glasgow Botanic Garden. 
The foliage of the plant is both curious and attractive. The sides of the leaves 
are somewhat unequal, their upper surface is of a delicate light green, and they are 
of a beautiful pale purplish hue beneath. These circumstances, added to their 
uncommon length, give them more the appearance of some Begonia leaves. The 
flowers are borne solitarily from the joints of the stem, and stand out on long 
slender peduncles. The colour of their tube is a singularly brilliant scarlet, and the 
limb is of a dark yellow tint. The contrast made by these extremely showy 
colours, in conjunction with the fine tints of the leaves, is particularly agreeable. 
Each of the blossoms lasts for a very considerable time, and there is a succession of 
