at the garden of the Horticultural Society, Hammersmith, 
where the plant is cultivated in the stove. 
We have ranked the species under the present generic 
name, although we do not suppose it will be ultimately 
found to combine with the original MkrasroMa of Lin- 
neus, any more than many others which are placed there 
until the order is remodelled; a performance towards 
which, we understand, we may expect some valuable 
contributions in a future number of the ** Nova Genera et 
Species Plantarum" of M. Kunth. 
A tall shrub with a pubescent stem and branches, the 
latter of which come out at the upper part of the first, are 
short and obtusely quadrangular. Leaves petioled, cordately 
oval, from 4 to 7 inches long and from 3 to 5 broad, 7- 
nerved, furred at the upper surface with close-pressed 
bristly hairs, at the under by a dense tufted white wool. 
Panicles terminal, decussately branched, with imbricately 
many-flowered branchlets. Flowers violet purple, more 
than an inch and an half across. Bractes red, resembling 
the segments of the calyx. Limb of the calyx red, with ob- 
long obtuse caducous segments; tube of the length of the 
germen and not contracted at the top. Anthers cream- 
coloured, far shorter than the eorolla, converging and as- 
cending abruptly by a narrow flexure near the base, on the 
inside of which they are furnished with several small glan- 
dular papille. Fruit a 5-celled capsule. Don MSS. 
