Semeiandra
(from semeion, a mark, signal, and aner, andros, a male; in allusion to the conspicuous shape of one of the stamens). ORD. Onagrarieae. A genus comprising only two species of slender, pubescent, greenhouse, evergreen shrubs, inhabiting the mountains of Mexico. Flowers scarlet, showy, axillary, solitary, pedunculate; calyx coloured, four-lobed, globose at base; petals four, small, linear-subulate; stamens two, one ending in a petal-like expansion, the other with two perfect cells. Leaves usually opposite, petiolate, oblong-lanceolate, serrated, membranous. One of the species has been introduced. It requires culture similar to Fuchsia (which see). S. grandiflora (large-flowered). fl. large and handsome; calyx tube funnel-shaped, the limb cut into four very long-linear, acuminate segments, of which three are reflexed and the fourth is erect; petals four, linear-subulate. Spring. l. ovate or ovate-lanceolate, tapering below, acuminate at the apex, penniveined. h. 6ft. Mexico, 1853. (B. M. 4727.)