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for the species both to Dr. Solandei' arid Mn Dryandcf* 

 Jacquin's figure is from a dilapidated dried sample, and is 

 good for little. Vahl's description has been most probably 

 derived from the same source as that of Messrs. Solander 

 and Dryander; if so, it is far from correct. The bractes 

 are not cuneate, as he describes them. In fact we rely 

 simply upon the Banksian Herbarium for the species. 



A branching shrub from two to three feet high, JEinelv 

 and loosely villous, of a deep green ; branches gi-een, round, 

 except at the newest joints, where they are slightly 

 squared, streaked. Leaves opposite, distant, elongatedly 

 ovate, lanceolate, acuminate, nerved, at the lower part re- 

 pandly subdentate, often waved, about 3 inches long and | 

 of an inch broad, shortly narrowed at the base; petiole 

 linear, several times shorter than the blade. Racemes axiU 

 lary, terminal, spiked, aggregated, by threes ? manyflowered, 

 flowers near, shortly pedicled ; bractes herbaceous linearly 

 subulate roughishly villous with very short headed villi, one 

 at the base of the piedicle, two above which are twice 

 shorter than the calyx. Calyx of the same substance, and 

 with the same pubescence as the bractes, 3 times shorter than 

 the corolla, segments linear pointed connivent. Corolla 

 subseaiiosely stiffened, of a diluted purplish crimson, an inch 

 and half long, villous on the outside and shining, tubularly 

 funnelforin, compressed, ringent; tube cylindrical, green^ 

 of nearly the length of the calyx, /flw^r gradually enlarged, 

 compressed pale purple, yellovV on the inside, twice the 

 length of the tube, the lips of' the limb about. the length of 

 the faux, of a deeper red and marked with yellow and green, 

 equal in length, upper one narrower, linearly oblong, 'coH- 

 volutely concave, at the back trisulcately fluted, shortly 

 tapei-ed at the top, notched and variegated with green and 

 yellow, lobules obtiise reflectent, lower lip three times 

 broader, spreading, 3-cleft, segments oblong keeled deeply 

 purpled inwards with a yellow streak along the middle, out- 

 wards yeUowishly green, bifid at the end and reflectent, tlie 

 middle subovately oblong, rather broader than the rest, 

 with a wider fissure at the end. Anthers linearly lanceolate, 

 green, shortly pedicled, generally with one loculament, 

 fiometiraes with two. 



The drawing was taken in the hothouse of Messrs. Whit- 

 ley aucl Co, in June last. Introduced in 1799 by Sir Joseph 

 Banks. . , ,. . 



