«nnial. The one before us is clearly perennial when culti- 

 vated in the conservatoiy, and we suspect the other will 

 be found so under the same circumstances. We have ex- 

 amined the descriptions and figures, as well as indigenous 

 and cultivated samples of AMetia, and confess ourselves 

 unable to discover such marks as in our view w^ould justify 

 a speculative sepai-ation in the species of the two plants. 

 The samples vary in height, in the deeper or shallower inci- ' 

 sions of the leaves, in the greater or less elongation of the 

 fi^me, as well as of the petioles. Nor can we distinguish 

 the Chili plant of Feuill^e from either. A comparison of the 

 Kving subjects deemed distinct, or the difference of their 

 dorsction being established by experience, may enable others 

 to form a different opinion. We are obliged to Mr. Lambert 

 for 4he opportunity of making the drawing. 



Root fibrous spreadi 



stem herbaceous, 1-2 feet higl 



or more, 4-coi*nered, hirsute, bmnching at the bottom, the 

 branches procumbent for some distance, and often rooting 

 at the joints. Leaves longly or shortly petioled, opposite, 

 spreading, hireute, ovately oblong, lobedly and laciniately 

 Assected, acuminated, at most about 3 inches long, depress- 

 edly nerved and veined, veiy shallowly decurrent along the 



sides of : the channelled petiole 



Spike 



tlitary 



minal 



numerous, scattered, imbricated, extending itself gradually, 

 the lower part, by "the quick fall of the corolla becoming 

 squarrose, upper part corymbosely fastigiate, the long flowers 

 shooting up in succession round the central unopened ones, 

 jBf*ftcfM linearly lanceolate, hirsute, i-ather shorter than the 



<^yx 



Calyx glandularly hireute, about I shorter than 



hharterfoMx: limb obliquely 



tube of the corolla, linearly tubular, plaitedly 5-cornered, 



teeth subulate, one much smaller than the rest. Corolla 

 aibcnit an inch lonflr hypocrateriform : tube twice deeper than 



mb, pubescent, pale, with a slightly enlarged 4 times 



rotate ; one lip 3-cleft to below 

 the- midfile, s^ments cuneately obcordate^ divergent, the 

 Aiddl^ sdmiewhat; larger, /Ae other lip about r smaller ^-cleft, 

 s egmen ts collaterally convergent. Faux bearded within, and 

 at ih^ ofificeT G^e?wejir6bt6hg,"4-fiifr6wed, 4-comered with 

 routed corners, greea: sti/k clavatdy filiform, flattened 

 «b4 if^dened above : stigma eh^rX, biformly 2-lobed, one lobe 

 poiptied and upright, the other thick obtuse glandulai' ^d 



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