The present is native oC ISIe;;ico; and though it does 

 not appc<ar in eitiier edition of tlie Hortiis Kewensis, wc find 

 l>y Sweet's Ilortiis Snbnrhaiuis Londincnsis that it has been 

 introduced ever is'invv. 18()."3. The (h-awing was tahen from 

 a yeading phmt at tiic nnrsery of Messrs. Whitley, Brames, 

 and MiJne, at Fulhain, where it was cultivated in the open 

 ground. Tlie ilowers are said to he larger on old plants 

 and tlie foliage smaltei-. The seeds which produced the 

 specimen we saw, had been received from Madrid by the 

 above nurseivmen. 



Perennial. Stem 2-0 feet higli, sufrruticosc, branching, 



bluntly 4-cornercd, 4-furrowed, hispid. Leaves opposite, 



cordate, acute, crenate, wrinkled, viscous, villous, soft, 



rank smelling, very bitter, 2-4 inches long, with a hispid 



petiole about half their length, close below the base of which 



are two small parallel round glands of a pale green colour. 



Spili'es terminal, upright, long. Flowers verticillate (in 



whorls), shortly pedicled. Bractes deciduous, opposite, 



under the wliorls, lanceolate, cuspidate, striate, subserru- 



late, ciliate, very widely spread, reflectent, purplish. Calyx 



campanulate, compi-essed, generally ten-streaked, roughly 



furred, bilabiate, with the lips of equal length and upright ; 



w/»/>er OHe roundish, rather pointed, large; fo(f er twoparted 



with seuiiovate [)ointed segments. Corolla villous on the 



outside; ^M^r; wiiite;/a?^r white and twice longer than the 



calyx; limh deep blue, ringent: casque ovate, oblong, emar- 



^nate (notched), connivent: //)> 3-lobed, outspread, longer 



than the casque, middle segment nearly round, emarginate, 



much the largest, lateral ones obtuse, small, placed near 



to the middle one. Stamens and Pht'd enclosed in the 

 casque. 



