#ds taken at the nursery of Messrs. Whitley and Co. Ful- 

 ham, where it has been very recently received from the 

 Botanic Garden of Berlin. It is perfectly hardy, and flowers 

 in May and June. 



Root perennial. Stems herbaceous, procumbent, radi- 

 cant, from a foot and a half to two feet long, quite simple, 

 seldom branched, smooth, frequently purplish, slightly 4- 

 comered. Leaves subsessile, opposite, obtuse, dark green 

 above, subrevolute at the edge, very shortly and bnstly 

 ciliate, the lowermost nearly round, the next ovate, then 

 oblongly ovate, and lastly lanceolate. Flowers 4-5 Upon a 

 stem ; peduncles solitai-yj axillary, seldom opposite, upright, 

 equal to the leaves 6r longer, round or slightly compressed, 

 recurved after the flower has faded. Cali/x slightly coloured} 

 5-parted, upright, persistent, segments wideset, acute, mi- 

 nutely ciliate, toothed on each side the base by a small 

 gland. Corolla like that of the congeners, about an ihch 

 and half across, vai'ying from a deep violet pui*ple to white^ 

 deepishly five-fiirrowed at the naiTow part of the tube, faUx 

 closed by a white pubescence. Filaments hirsute where 

 they join to the corolla, prominent oti otte side, smooth, 

 white, dilated towards the anthers. Anthers yellow hirsutely 

 furred at the top without, having a membranous lamina 

 on each side their middle. Germens 2, ovate, intercepted 

 on each side by a yellow green melliferous gland. Styles 

 white. Stigmas White*Woolled. Follicles 2, sometimes 

 narrowed In the middle, subangular, narrower towards the 

 top) one of them often miscarrying. Seeds oblong, 

 on one side^ with a longitudinal cavity on the other. 



