SIPHOCAMPYLUS MA N ETTLEFLORU.S. 
( Manettia-flowered Siphocanipylus ) . 
Class. Order. 
PENTANDRIA. MONOGYNIA. 
Natural Order. 
LOBELIACE.E. 
(Lobeliads, Veg. King.) 
Generic Character — Calyx adnate to the ovarium ; 
limb five-parted, having the segments shorter than 
the tube of the corolla. Corolla irregular, tubular ; 
tube entire, declinate, rather ventricose in the 
middle, and rather contracted at the base ; limb five- 
parted, bilabiate ; upper lip of two straight or spread- 
ing segments ; the two lateral segments of the 
lower lip diverging, and the middle one more pro- 
found. Stamens and anthers combined, the latter 
bearded. Capsule ovate, two-celled, two-valved, 
dehiscing at the apex.— Mag. Bot., v. xii., t. 173. 
Specific Character. — A small, erect, firm growing 
plant, not exceeding a foot in height, suffruticose, 
leafy, branched. Leaves alternate, on short petioles 
or nearly sessile, from one and a-half to nearly two 
inches long, rather rigid, oblongo-ovate, obscurely 
serrated, reticulated, glabrous and glossy above, more 
rugose from reticulations, and somewhat hoary 
beneath. Peduncles from the axils of the leaves, 
short, not one- third as long as the leaf (together with 
the flower a little longer than the leaf), bearing two 
small bracts near the middle. Calyx a little downy ; 
its tube, including the inferior ovary, turbinate ; the 
segments erecto-patent, remotely serrated, subulate, 
one-fourth the length of the corolla. Corolla slightly 
curved, tubular for the greater part of its length, but 
singularly compressed laterally, two-coloured, red for 
two-thirds of its length from the base, the rest yellow. 
Limb with five segments, ovate-lanceolate, nearly equal, 
scarcely spreading, the cleft above scarcely deeper than 
between the rest of the segments. Anthers terminated 
by tufts of hair. Stigma two-lobed. Stamens and 
style included. Hooker, in Bot. Mag., t. 4403. 
This very handsome little shrub flowered beautifully in the nurseries of Messrs. 
Low, of Clapton, and Kollisson, of Tooting. In the latter our drawing was made 
in April, 1848. 
It is a stove plant with a dwarf, neat habit, and small deep-green foliage. The 
tube of the flower is of the brightest scarlet, .and the divided limb of a rich yellow ; 
the bloom being produced in great profusion. The plants when in flower are 
objects of great beauty. 
It was originally introduced to this country from Belgium by Mr. Low, and is 
thought to be a native of New Grenada, but unfortunately few particulars can be 
gathered either as to its origin or introduction to Europe. 
It is usually known in nurseries by the name of S. nitidus ; but is in many 
respects a very different plant, with a much neater habit. 
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