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4250.

ALLOPLECTUS REPENS. Creeping Alloplectus.

Nat. Ord. GESNERIACEÆ.-DIDYNAMIA ANGIOSPERMIA.

Generic Character (Vide supra, TAB. 4216.)

ALLOPLECTUS repens; hic illic pubescens, suffruticosus, repens, foliis late ovatis grosse crenato-serratis subcarnosis brevi-petiolatis, pedunculis axillaribus solitariis unifloris petiolum longe superantibus, sepalis late ovatis acutis maculatis patentibus, corollæ parce pilosæ tubo infundibuliformi curvato, limbo 4-lobo, lobo superiore latiore bifido, reliquis ovatis patentibus. Ovary glabrous, with a large fleshy gland on one side. Style curved upwards, downy. Stigma obscurely two-lobed.

Figures

Fig. 1. Portion of the Peduncle, Pistil, and hypogynous Gland. 2. Stamens:- magnified. o Thrifty Whiskers A pretty Gesneriaceous plant, probably scandent upon the trunks of trees and rooting among the dead bark and moss. It is a stove plant, native of the damp woods in the ascent of the Sierra Nivada, St. Martha, and was thence sent to the Royal Gardens of Kew by our collector, Mr. Purdie. A comparison of this with the figure of Alloplectus dichrous, at Tab. 4216. will show that the essential characters of the two are the same as to genus. It flowers in February.

Botanical Description A small shrubby plant, with trailing stems and branches,

and throwing out roots from between the pairs of leaves, so as to constitute a creeping stem. Leaves rather small, ovate, fleshy, coarsely serrated, hairy or glabrous. Petiole much shorter than the leaf. Peduncle shorter than the leaf, but longer than the petiole, axillary, single-flowered, dark purple, four-angular up- wards. Calyx very large and loose, spreading and standing off, as it were, from the tube of the corolla, of five broadly ovate, acute, almost leafy segments, pale green blotched with purple. Corolla yellow tinged with red, twice as long as the calyx. Tube curved, funnel-shaped, swollen at the base; limb of four, spreading segments, of which the uppermost one is broad and bifid, the rest ovate and entire. Stamens four, didynamous (with a minute scale, the rudiment of a fifth), inserted near the base of the tube of the corolla, and each pair united by the base of the filaments. AUGUST 1ST, 1846.