Conandron
(from konos, a cone, and aner, andron, a male, an anther; the appendages to the anthers are united in a cone around the style). ORD. Gesneraceoe. A rare and very pretty, but not quite hardy, herbaceous perennial. For cultivation, see Ramondia, to which this genus is allied. C. ramondioides (Ramondia-like).* fl. shortly pedicellate, with linear bracts, borne on leafless scapes in a forked corymbose cyme, which is at first drooping; corolla white, or pink with a purplish eye, rotate, twice the length of the calyx; tube sub-globose, whitish; calyx about 1/2in. long, pubescent. Summer. l. few, sometimes solitary, stalked, ovate-oblong, acute, coarsely serrated, dark green and rugose. h. 6in. Japan, 1879. (B. M. 6484.)