iESCHYNANTHUS SPECIOSUS. 
(Showy iEschynantlras.) 
Class. 
DID YN AMI A. 
Natural Order. 
GESNERACEiE. 
Order. 
ANGIOSPERMXA, 
Generic Character.— Calyx ventricosely tubular, 
five-cleft. Corolla tubular, incurved, with a dilated 
campanulate throat, and an oblique, sub-labiate limb. 
Stamens four, didynamous, exserted, usually with the 
rudiment of a fifth ; anthers at first conniving by 
pairs; cells parallel. Stigma excavated, somewhat 
funnel-shaped. Capsule long, siliquose, two-valved, 
falsely four-celled. Seeds small, generally scabrous, 
from papillae ending in a bristle-like tail at both ends 
— Don's Gard. and Botany, 
Specific Character.— Stems about two feet long, 
according to Mr. Lobb ; the lower part woody ; the 
upper and younger branches subtetragonous and her- 
baceous. Leaves opposite or ternate, mostly nearly 
sessile, the uppermost ones beneath the flowers in a 
whorl of four to six or eight ; the form is between ovate 
and lanceolate, acuminate, the texture very fleshy, the 
margin obscurely serrated. Flowers in terminal fas- 
cicles of from six to ten, and even twenty ; large, hand- 
some, showy, slightly pubescent. Peduncle erect, short, 
single-flowered. Calyx cut to the base in five deep, 
almost subulate, erect segments. Corolla between 
three and four inches long, full orange, with the extre- 
mity scarlet ; the tube clavate, curved downward at 
the extremity, and there convex at the back, concave 
or canaliculate beneath (within glandular) ; the mouth 
oblique, four-lobed, the lobes patent, rounded, the upper 
one bifid ; each lobe bears a lunulate black line, forming 
the boundary between the orange and red colour. Sta- 
mens and style exserted. Ovary linear, inserted in a 
fleshy gland or cup. Stigma transversely grooved.— 
Sir W. Hooker, Bot. Mag., 4320. 
Notices of this fine addition to our stoves were given in pp. 141 and 190 of the 
present volume of this Magazine. This is another of the introductions of Messrs. 
Veitch and Son, nurserymen, Exeter. It is a native of Java, where it was dis- 
covered, in very damp woods, attached to the trunks of trees on Mount Asapan, near 
Bantam, at an elevation of 2000 feet, by Mr. Thomas Lobb, who sent home living 
plants of it. 
A fine specimen was exhibited at the Horticultural Show in Regent's Park, last 
May, where it was very justly admired as one of the finest species which has yet been 
introduced : the only one which can at all vie with it is M. longiflorus, a figure of 
which will be given shortly. 
The foliage and manner of growth is not very unlike 2E. grandiflorus ; the fas - 
cicles bear from twelve to fifteen blooms each, of a brilliant scarlet and orange 
colour, each blossom being about two inches and a half in length. 
It is a very free grower and bloomer. Messrs. Veitch and Son have now a plant 
not more than six inches high, and several not exceeding a foot, just coming into 
flower, in their nursery at Exeter. 
It is of easy culture, and may be potted in rough sandy peat, or, like all the 
