PAXTON’S 
MAGAZINE OF GARDENING AND BOTANY. 
JESCHYNANTHUS PXJLCHER. (Pretty -flowered iEschynanthus) 
Class, Didynamia. Order, Angiospermia. -Nat. Order, Gesnerace^e. (Gesner- worts, Veg. King.) 
Generic Character.— Mag. Gard. % Bot., t. 67. 
Specific Character. — Plant epiphytal, evergreen. Stems 
trailing, slender, rooting at the joints. Leaves lanceolate, 
rounded at the base, fleshy. Petioles short. Flowers in 
axillary and terminal fascicles, peduncled. Peduncle short, 
two-flowered, bibracteate. Calyx tubular, medium size, 
smooth, pale-green, tinged and spotted with reddish-purple ; 
segments equal, blunt. Corolla tubular, wide at the throat. 
funnel-shaped, swollen at the base, of a rich vermilion 
scarlet, tinged with yellow in the throat, and barred with 
purple ; limb divided into four spreading segments, upper 
segment two-lobed. Stamens exserted. Anthers joined in 
pairs. Style longer than the stamens. 
Authorities and Synonvmbs. — iEschynanthus pulcher. 
Be Cand. Prod. ix. p. 262 ; Hooker in Bot. Mag. 4264. Tri- 
chosporum pulchrum, Blame’s Bijdr., p. 764. 
Ouk drawing of this fine epiphyte was made from a specimen which flowered in the 
collection of Messrs. Yeitch and Son, Nurserymen, Exeter ; by whom it was introduced 
from Java through their collector, Mr. Thomas Lobb. It is a plant of rare beauty, and a 
most profuse flowerer, continuing in bloom throughout several of the summer months. 
Like the other species of iEschynanthus, it requires a warm and humid atmosphere, 
and may be either fixed to a block of wood, or planted in a basket of soil or moss, and 
suspended from the roof of the Orchid house, where it will be shaded from the fierce rays 
of the sun. 
Of the eighteen or twenty kinds of iEschynanthus known to botanical travellers, fifteen 
or sixteen are already in this country ; the greater part are exceedingly pretty, and all are 
of the easiest management. 
Propagation is effected by cuttings of the half-ripened shoots planted in soil, and treated 
in the same manner as the parent plants. 
ERICA PULVERULENTA. (Powdery Heaths 
Class, Octandria.- — Order , Monogynia. Nat. Order, Ericaceas. (Heath-worts, Veg. King.) 
Generic Character.— Calyx four-parted, with a naked 
base, inferior. Corolla globose or urceolate, with afour-lobed 
limb. Stamens inclosed ; filaments capillary. Anthers bifid. 
Capsule four- celled. 
Specific Character. — Plant a shrub, covered with 
powdery down. Leaves verticillate, three in a whorl. 
Flowers terminal, purplish-red. Corolla ovate. Bract, 
imbricated. Anthers awned. 
Authorities and Synonymes. — Erica Linn. E. pulve- 
rulenta, Bedf. Eric. Wob. 20. 
This very pretty species of heath is a native of the Cape of Good Hope, from whence it 
was introduced into this country in 1820, and is now pretty generally cultivated. The 
neatness of its habit, and the abundance of flowers it produces, recommend it to notice, 
and it well deserves to form one in every choice collection. 
Our drawing was made in the nursery of Messrs. Rollisson of Tooting, in July, 1843. 
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