DIPLADENIA UEOPHYLLA. 
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iESCHYNANTHUS MINIATUS. (Vermilion-flowered iEschynanthus.) 
Class, Didynamia. Order, Angiospermia. Nat. Order, Gesneriace.®. (Gesner- Worts, Veg. King.) 
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 sca- 
brous ; from papillae ending in a bristle-like tail at both 
ends. 
Specific Character. — Plant epiphytal, evergreen. Stems 
trailing, slender, rooting at the joints. Leaves ovate-oblong, 
blunt, opposite, obscurely serrated, fleshy, about two inches 
long. Petioles short. Flowers in axillary and terminal 
fascicles, peduncled. Peduncle short, single-flowered. Calyx 
tubular, smooth, medium size, green tinged with purple; 
segments equal, blunt. Corolla tubular, wide at the throat, 
funnel-shaped, swollen at the base, of a rich vermilion red, 
tinged with yellow in the throat and barred with purple ; 
limb divided into four obcordate, spreading segments, upper 
segment two-lobed. Stamens exserted, fastened to the tube 
of the corolla. Anthers joined in two pairs. Style one. 
Authorities and Synonymes.*— iEschynanthus, Jack, in 
Linn. Trans . ; Wallich in PI. Rar. Asiat. Incarvillea, 
Roxburgh . Lysionotus, Blume. iEschynanthus miniatus, 
Lindl. in Bot. Reg., xxxii., t. 61. iEschynanthus radicans, 
Wallich. Trichosporum radicans, Blume. 
Our drawing of this very pretty species of iEschynanthus was made from a specimen which 
flowered in the stove of Messrs. Yeitch and Son, at Exeter, in November, 1847. 
It is a native of Java, where it was discovered and sent to those gentlemen by 
Mr. Thomas Lobb, one of their collectors. 
In graceful habit and the production of bloom, perhaps A. minictta is fully equal to any 
other known species, for although the flowers are less in size compared with some, yet 
their profusion compensates for deficiency in this respect. The plant is easily managed, 
requiring, like the other kinds, to be grown in a warm, humid atmospiiere, either planted 
in a suspended basket, or fixed to a block of wood in a shaded part of the Orchid house. 
In such a situation it luxuriates, its slender shoots hanging in festoons of the most brilliant 
vermilion, relieved by the glossy green of its neat, fleshy foliage. 
The generic name is derived from aischuno, to be ashamed, and anthos, a flower ; in 
allusion to the plants always flowering in shady situations. 
DIPLADENIA UROPHYLLA. (Taper -pointed Dipladenia.) 
Class, Pentandria. Order, Monogynia. Nat. Order, Apocynace.®. (Dogbanes, Veg. King.) 
Generic Character. — Mag. Gard. $ Bot. i., t. 4. 
Specific Character. — Plant a shrub. Branches numerous, 
terete, swollen at the joints, glabrous. Leaves opposite, 
petiolate, ovate-oblong, rounded at the base, and tapering to 
a long point at the extremity. Petioles long, articulated on 
the swollen part of the joint. Flowers in axillary racemes. 
Racemes long, slender, flexuous, drooping. Pedicels of irre- 
gular lengths, according to their position in the raceme. 
Calyx small, deeply five-lobed ; segments awl-shaped. Co- 
rolla tubular, large, showy. Tube of a rich brownish yellow 
in the inside, paler without, and slightly tinged with rose 
colour ; the lower part contiguous with the calyx, yellow- 
green, narrow, and cylindrical ; the upper part wide and 
campanulate ; limb divided into five large spreading obcor- 
date acute segments, of a rich rose colour ; throat of the 
richest yellow. Staftiens shorter than the tube ; filaments 
hairy. Anthers monadelplious. 
Authorities and Synonymes. — Echites urophylla of the 
Nurseries. Dipladenia urophylla, Hooker in Bot. Mag., 
t. 4414. 
This fine species forms an upright-growing evergreen bush, without any disposition to 
climb. The leaves are of a fine deep green, and shining on the upper surface, but paler 
beneath ; and the rich rosy crimson flowers hanging on their slender racemes, are exhibited 
to great advantage by their contrast with the green foliage. 
This is another of the many introductions of Messrs. Yeitch and Son, of Exeter, who 
raised it from seeds collected by Mr. Lobb. The plant was found growing on the Organ 
Mountains of Brazil, at an elevation which renders the heat of the stove necessary to grow 
it to perfection. 
The habit of this plant being altogether different from that of any other known Dipladenia, 
we were almost inclined to consider it a member of another genus, but, on examination, it 
appears to be a true Dipladenia, as that genus is at present constituted. 
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