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received both by Mr. W. Anderson, of the Apothecaries’ 
botanical establishment, and Messrs. Whitley and Co. 
On referring to the Banksian Herbarium, from which 
the Сорнкл lanceolata. of the late edition of the Hortus 
Kewensis was adopted; we are-led to suspect that that plant, 
though very near, is distinct.as a species from this. Its 
stem is entirely upright, much slenderer, and the pubescence 
white; a flower situated near one of the branches has a 
peduncle even longer than the calyx, all are upright, and 
the plant is upon a smaller scale throughout. Bat -still 
the specimen is teo shattered and imperfect for a safe deci- 
sion, and may have been one of feeble growth, and the di- 
rection of its stem and flowers may have been altered by 
the mode of drying the plant. Yet we are inclined to be- 
lieve it essentially distinct. Be that as it may, the appel- 
lation of procumbens should certainly be maintained оп the | 
score of priority, whether the plants should prove ultimately 
of one species or not. | = . 
The present is ап annual. First raised in Europe by. Pro- 
fessor Cavanilles, in the garden of the Buen Retiro, at 
Madrid. In part procumbent, in part ascendent; stem 
herbaceous viscidly and ropghly pubescent, with purple 
hairs, a foot or more long, branched; branches axillary, 
low down, alternate, simple, bluntly 4-cornered. Leaves 
opposite, patent, ovately lanceolate, slightly pubescent with 
- white hairs, nerved, rachis or midrib. varicose.beneath, from 
an inch and a half to near three inches long, diminishi 
as they advance towards the summit of the stem to meré 
bractes: petiole short, hirsute, _ Flgipers. numerong, loose, 
rininating. stem. and branches. in leafy racemes, alternate, 
solitary, iziterfoliaceons er lateral between each pair of 
leaves, nutant, irregular, about an inch across the corolla: 
peduncles longer than the petioles, two or three times shorter 
than the calyx. Calyx purplish, tubular, with 12 raised 
streaks and a pubescence the same as that of the stem,. 
ventricose beneath, upper side of. the base projecting like a | 
short’ obtuse ‘spur, faux widened, orifice slightly bilabiate, 
patent, upper lip largest bearing 2 Peale: lower smaller 
aring 4 petals; lobules or teeth 6, callous, thickened; 
pointed by a terminal bristle. Petals inserted within the. 
rim of the orifice of the ‘calyx; arid’ alternating -with. the. 
teeth, rose-purple, bilabiately rotate, with open intervals 
