Sanchezia
(named in honour of Josef Sanchez, Professor of Botany at Cadiz). SYN. Ancylogyne. ORD. Acanthaceoe. A noble genus of stove, erect, perennial herbs or sub-shrubs, glabrous or loosely pilose above; there are about eight species, natives of Peru, Columbia, and Brazil. Flowers orange, reddish, or purple, sessile in the axils of the bracts, or shortly pedicellate and fascicled or rarely solitary; calyx deeply five-fid or five-parted; corolla tube long, cylindrical or slightly swollen above the middle, limb of five rounded, spreading lobes; bracts sometimes ample, in a cup-like fascicle, sometimes narrow or small; bracteoles resembling calyx segments. Leaves opposite, ample, entire or scarcely toothed. Two species have been introduced. They require culture similar to Barleria (which see). S. longiflora (long-flowered).* fl. about 2in. long, tubular, and, together with the calyces, pedicels, and branches of the panicle, of a rich vinous-purple colour, disposed on drooping, elongated branched panicles. April. l. ample, ovate-oblong or obovatelanceolate. Stems four-angled. Guayaquil, 1866. A handsome perennial, of shrubby habit. (F. D. S. 2460; B. M. 5588, under name of Ancylogyne longiflora.) S. nobilis (noble).* fl., corolla yellow, 2in. long, cylindrical, slightly curved; bracts bright red, 1in. to 1 1/2in. long, each pair inclosing eight to ten flowers; inflorescence erect, terminal, consisting of numerous opposite fascicles, forming a dense panicle, with deep purple branches. June. l. 3in. to 9in. long, oblongobovate or oblong-lanceolate, acuminate, obtusely toothed, narrowed into short, broad-winged petioles which are connate at base. h. 1ft. to 3ft. Ecuador, 1866. Sub-shrub. (B. M. 5594; F. d. S. 2437.) S. n. glaucophylla (glaucous-leaved).* A variety having leaves of a glaucous-green, striped with white or yellow.(I. H. 580.) SYN. S. n. variegata.
S. n. variegata (variegated). A synonym of S. n. glaucophylla.