has flowered for the first time in this country, in the coUec- 

 tion of Dowager Lady Tankerville, at Walton upon Thames. 

 We had no opportunity of describing it, and have trusted 

 to the description contained in the Flora Peruviana. 



An herbaceous hothouse plant, covered with ^a pu- 

 bescence of longish hairs terminated by a gland. Root 

 finely fibrous. Stem two feet high, slightly branched, 

 round. Branches alternate, alike. Leaves alterijate, shortly 

 petioled, brokenly pinnated : leaflets sessile ; larger o»es 

 jaggedly pinnated ; lesser lanceolate, entire. Flowers in 

 panicles : pedicles^ 1 -flowered, filiform, supported at the base 

 by two small lanceolate hractes. Corolla blueish violet: 

 upper lip variegated, lower with purple stripes. Filaments 

 stifle, upright, villous. Stigma notched. Capsule 2-celled, 

 2-valved : valves bipartite. 



An undue importance seems to have been given by 

 Jussieu, in the combination of orders, to the posture of the 

 partition in a plurilocular seedvessel, in relation to the 

 valves of the same (whether that is opposite to thes^ 

 or parallel with them), and has induced him to separate 

 ordei-s in every other respect too closely akin to admit 

 of detachment : for instance, Rhododendra from Fkiccc and 

 Pediculares from Scrophularice ; and it is justly observed 

 by Mr. Brown, that although the above character will 

 commonly serve for the distinction of genera, it never 

 can of itself be sufficient to distinguish orders ; a proof 

 of which may be had in, several genera of the present 

 family, especially in Veronica, where almost every kind 

 of dehiscence takes place among the various species. 



