CELZENOSTOMA POLYAN'THUM. 
MANY-FLOWERED CILENOSTOMA. 
Purple variety. 
Glass . 
DIDYNAMIA. 
Order . 
ANGIOSPEUMIA. 
Natural Order. 
scrophulariacea:. 
Native of 
Height. 
Flowers in 
Duration. 
Cultivated 
S. Africa. 
15 inches. 
July. 
Perennial. 
in 1848. 
No. 1235. 
The comparatively wide tube of the corolla is here 
alluded to in the name derived from chama, to gape ; 
stoma, a mouth. 
This native of Southern Africa, near Algoa Bay, 
is one of a rather numerous genus, nearly all of 
which belong to the country intermediate between 
its own habitat and the Cape of Good Hope. It 
may be supposed that this district is, to botanists, 
an interesting one, when it is known that in the 
colony of the Cape alone, twelve thousand species of 
plants have been collected and described. It may 
be called the land of Heaths, for of these alone three 
hundred species have been collected. 
Chaenostoma polyanthum is a suffruticose plant of 
short duration, unless renewed by cuttings or seeds. 
As sometimes occurs with other plants, so it is with 
this ; propagated from seed, increased interest has 
arisen in a very distinct variety, having flowers of 
deep blue. We have frequently insisted on the ad- 
vantages of propagating perennials from seed, how- 
ever easily they may be continued by division. In 
the one case, improvement may arise, in the other 
it is impossible. 
