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Philogacanthus (Greek for flame, and acant-hus). Acanthaceae. Glasshouse plants grown for the ornamental flowers.

Philogacanthus (Greek for flame, and acant-hus). Acanthaceae. Glasshouse plants grown for the ornamental flowers.

Tall half-shrubby herbs with entire or somewhat toothed lvs.: fls. white, red or greenish in long terminal or short lateral spikes; calyx 5-parted: segms. linear, awnlike, acuminate; corolla-tube long, broad, curved: limb 2-lipped, upper lip erect, entire or 2-lobed: lower lip 3-parted; perfect stamens 2, inserted on the lower part of the tube; anthers with 2 parallel cells; ovary many- ovuled: caps, round or obtusely 4-angled.— Species 12-15, India, Malaya, to New Guinea. Several of the species have been more or less cult, at one tune or another. Used like the others of the family as decorative pot-plants in the greenhouse. They require a rather warm, damp atmosphere and a soil rich in humus. Prop, by cuttings or seeds.

Tall half-shrubby herbs with entire or somewhat toothed lvs.: fls. white, red or greenish in long terminal or short lateral spikes; calyx 5-parted: segms. linear, awnlike, acuminate; corolla-tube long, broad, curved: limb 2-lipped, upper lip erect, entire or 2-lobed: lower lip 3-parted; perfect stamens 2, inserted on the lower part of the tube; anthers with 2 parallel cells; ovary many- ovuled: caps, round or obtusely 4-angled.— Species 12-15, India, Malaya, to New Guinea. Several of the species have been more or less cult, at one tune or another. Used like the others of the family as decorative pot-plants in the greenhouse. They require a rather warm, damp atmosphere and a soil rich in humus. Prop, by cuttings or seeds.

P. curviflorus, Nees. Shrub, 3-6 ft. high: lvs. large, elliptic, acute at both ends, toothed, glabrous: fls. yellowish, with an elongated corolla. Himalayas. B.M. 3783. H.U. 2, p. 259. Heinrich Hasselbring.

P. curviflorus, Nees. Shrub, 3-6 ft. high: lvs. large, elliptic, acute at both ends, toothed, glabrous: fls. yellowish, with an elongated corolla. Himalayas.

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