jESCHYNANTHUS boschianus. 
(Vanden Bosch's iEschynanthus). 
Class. Order, 
DIDYNAMIA. ANGIOSPERMIA. 
Natural Order. 
GESNERACEJL 
Generic Character. — Calyx ventricosely tubular, 
five-cleft. Corolla tubular, incurved, with a dilated 
campanulate throat, and an oblique, sub-bilabiate 
limb. Stamens four, didynamous, exserted, usually 
with the rudiment of a fifth ; anthers at first conniv- 
ing by pairs ; cells parallel. Stigma excavated, some- 
what 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.— Plant epiphytal, evergreen. 
Stems trailing, small, rooting at the joints. Leaves 
ovate, blunt, opposite, entire, fleshy, small ; petiole 
short. Flowers in axillary clusters, peduncled ; 
peduncle short. Calyx tubular, smooth, large, pur- 
plish-brown ; segments equal, blunt. Corolla tubular, 
very wide at the throat, almost funnel-shaped, much 
swollen at the base, deep scarlet, whitish at the throat, 
and streaked therewith reddish -purple ; limb divided ; 
segments four, large, spreading ; upper one two-lobed. 
Stamens inserted in tube of corolla. Anthers joined 
in two pairs. Fruit very long. 
The coloured portion of the opposite plate is a representation of this plant as it 
first flowered in the country, which it did in the collection of R. G. Lorraine, Esq., 
last March ; that part of the plate in outline, represents its true character since 
more fully developed. The earliness of the season in which the first blossoms 
expanded, it is more than probable accounts for their apparent scanty production, as 
the same plant in the course of the summer bore them in the way they are shown, 
as before mentioned, in outline. 
British collections are indebted for so interesting an addition, to the continent, 
whence it was introduced about two years ago. It is a native of the island of Java, 
where it grows as an epiphyte, and is worthy to associate with other beautiful 
members of the genus, as 2E. grandifloras and maculatus ; it may not, in some 
respects, equal these favourite species, especially the former, in the colour of its 
flowers, but it has features which render it as engaging ; not the least deserving of 
these is the length of time it produces flowers. The subject of our drawing continued 
to bear them from the period already mentioned, till a recent date. 
Some attention to its management is required to cultivate this new species 
successfully. It will grow freely, rather too much so, as will most of its family, if 
planted in ordinary soil, and kept in the stove, or even in the greenhouse, but its 
flowering is not a matter of so great certainty. Our woodcut shows the way in which 
specimens grew that have flowered in a highly satisfactory manner, in the collections 
of the gentleman we are indebted to for our drawing, and the Messrs. Henderson of 
