* Collectanca;” where the native place is said to be on 
the banks of Champion river; a river npknown to Geo- 
graphy. Both the figure and history escaped the learned 
editors of the last edition of the Hortus Kewensis, until the 
species had appeared in that work under a new name, as 
unrecorded. "Ihe oversight was subsequently detected by 
Mr. Brown, and we now give tbe species by the prior ap- 
pellation. 
A tolerably hardy perennial plant, of the easiest cultis 
vation, growing almost anywhere, and scattering the seed 
spontaneously, bv which means a sufficient succession of 
young plants may be obtained without trouble. The stem 
never dies completely down, even in the open air, but in 
the greenhouse it is said to survive completely, and 
become an evergreen, Sometimes destroyed by very 
severe frost. Now very common in our gardens, and de- 
servedly so, from the elegance and singularity of the 
foliage and fragrance of the bloom. 'This last expands 
about sunset, and fades at.sunrise; and the branches con- 
tinuing to grow in length thro’ the whole summer, till 
stopped by the frost, a long succession of flowers is kept 
up. Stem from one to two feet high or more, simple or 
numerously branched, leafy from near the foot to the sum- 
mit, sometimes green, sometimes deep purple throughout. . 
Leaves scattered, distant, sessile, lanceolate, far tapered, 
somewhat ovate at the base, slightly villous on both sides, 
not smooth as described in the Hortus Kewensis, upper ones 
conspicuously undulate, lower less so and sometimes quite 
flat, all of a deep shining green colour; sometimes with 
purple, sometimes with pale green nerves, Flowers yellow, 
solitary, sessile, axillary in the upper foliage. Calyx pale 
green or purplish, an inch and half long; tube a fourth 
shorter than the deflectent limb. Petals, when fully ex- 
panded, little less than two inches over, obcordate, deeply 
and sharply emarginate. Germen longer than the tube of 
the calyx ; sometimes green, sometimes purple. : 
The drawing was made from a plant in the Apothecaries’ 
Garden at Chelsea. ' 
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