jESCHYNANTHUS speciosus. 
Class. 
DIDYNAMIA. 
(Showy ASschynanthus.) 
Natural Order. 
GESNERACE^E. 
Order. 
ANGIOSPERMIA, 
eneric Character. — Calyx ventrieosely tubular, 
fi cleft. Corolla tubular, incurved, with a dilated 
c panulate throat, and an oblique, sub-labiate limb. 
nens four, didynamous, exserted, usually with the 
r ment of a fifth ; anthers at first conniving by 
r s ; cells parallel. Stigma excavated, somewhat 
f lel-shaped. Capsule long, siliquose, two-valved, 
fjly four-celled. Seeds small, generally scabrous, 
f a papillae ending in a bristle-like tail at both ends, 
- on’s Gard. and Botany. 
’ecific Character. — Stems about two feet long, 
& >rding to Mr. Lobb ; the lower part woody ; the 
v er and younger brandies subtetragonous and her- 
li eous. Leaves opposite or ternate, mostly nearly 
£ ile, the uppermost ones beneath the flowers in a 
irl of four to six or eight ; the form is between ovate 
and lanceolate, acuminate, the texture very fleshy, the 
margin obscurely serrated. Flowers in terminal fas- 
cicles of from six to ten, and even twenty ; large, hand- 
some, showy, slightly pubescent. Peduncle erect, short, 
single-flowered. Calyx cut to the base in five deep, 
almost subulate, erect segments. Corolla between 
three and four inches long, full orange, with the extre- 
mity scarlet ; the tube clavate, curved downward at 
the extremity, and there convex at the back, concave 
or canaliculate beneath (within glandular) ; the mouth 
oblique, four-lobed, the lobes patent, rounded, the upper 
one bifid ; each lobe bearsalunulate black line, forming 
the boundary between the orange and red colour. Sta- 
mens and style exserted. Ovary linear, inserted in a 
fleshy gland or cup. Stigma transversely grooved.— 
Sir W. Hooker, Bot . Mag., 4320. 
Notices of this fine addition to our stoves were given in pp. 141 and 190 of the 
] isent volume of this Magazine. This is another of the introductions of Messrs, 
fitch and Son, nurserymen, Exeter. It is a native of Java, where it was dis- 
'yered, in very damp woods, attached to the trunks of trees on Mount Asapan, near 
ntam, at an elevation of 2000 feet, by Mr. Thomas Lobb, who sent home living 
; mts of it. 
A fine specimen was exhibited at the Horticultural Show in Regent’s Park, last 
ay, where it was very justly admired as one of the finest species which has yet been 
:roduced : the only one which can at all vie with it is AS. longiflorus, a figure of 
lich will he given shortly. 
The foliage and manner of growth is not very unlike JE. grandiflorus ; the fas - 
lies bear from twelve to fifteen blooms each, of a brilliant scarlet and orange 
lour, each blossom being about two inches and a half in length. 
It is a very free grower and bloomer. Messrs. Veitch and Son have now a plant 
>t more than six inches high, and several not exceeding a foot, just coming into 
)wer, in their nursery at Exeter. 
It is of easy culture, and may be potted in rough sandy peat, or, like all the 
