iESCHYNANTHUS LONGIFLORUS. 
(Long-flowered jEschinanthus.) 
Class. Order. 
DID YN AMI A. ANGIOSPERMIA. 
Natural Order. 
GESNERACEiE. 
(Gesner worts, Feg. King.) 
Generic Character — Calyx ventricosely tubular, 
five-cleft. Corolla tubular, incurved, with a dilated 
eampanulate 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 pa- 
pillae ending in a bristle-like tail at both ends.— Mag. 
Bot., vol. xiv., t. 199. 
Specific Character. — Plant epiphytal, evergreen. 
Stems trailing, somewhat robust, rooting at the joints. 
Leaves opposite, broadly-lanceolate, long-acuminated, 
fleshy, entire, smooth, somewhat large. Petiole short. 
Flowers disposed in terminal fascicles, ten or twelve 
flowers in a fascicle, peduncled. Peduncle short, single- 
flowered. Calyx tubular, smooth, green, tinged with 
purple, deeply cut into five linear-subulate segments. 
Corolla tubular, nearly four inches long, deep crimson ; 
the tube clavate, and curved at the extremity ; limb 
divided into four rounded segments, the upper one 
bifid : each segment bears an irregular black band ; 
mouth contracted and yellow, with dashes of a deeper 
colour. Stamens exserted. Anthers joined in two pairs. 
Style shorter than the stamens, hardly extending be- 
yond the mouth of the tube. Stigma transversely 
grooved. 
Authorities and Synon ymes. — /Eschynanthus, Jack, 
in Linn. Trans. ,Wallich,in PI. var. Asiat. Incarvillia, 
Roxburgh. Lysionotus, Blume, in Bijdragen tot de 
flora var. Nederlandshe Indie. M.\ong\Q.ovus,Hooker in 
Bot. Mag., t. 4328. Blume, in De Candolle's Prodromus, 
Mag. Bot., vol. xiv., p. 190. Lysionotus longiflorus, 
Blume Bijdr. G. Don, in System of Botany. 
In our Magazine of Botany, vol. xiv., t. 199, we figured a splendid species of 
Mscliynanthus (M. speciosus), introduced by Messrs. Veitch and Son, nurserymen 
of Exeter; we now bring before our readers another, and perhaps a still more 
gorgeous one, introduced into this country by the same gentlemen, and which proves 
to be the true M. longiflorus. They received plants of it from Mr. Thomas Lobb, 
their collector at Java, under the name of Lysionotus longiflorus, and by which 
appellation it was, some years ago, recorded as growing plentifully in dense woods 
in the provinces of Tjanjor, Buitenzorg, and Bantam, chiefly inhabiting old trees. 
It is described by Mr. Lobb as growing one foot high, in dwarf forests, on trees 
at an elevation of from three to four thousand feet. Messrs. Veitch treat it as a 
stove plant, and find it of easy culture. The flowers are produced freely all over the 
plant in terminal clusters of eight or ten, averaging about five inches in length, and 
of a deep puce or rich crimson scarlet colour. 
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