Little can at present be said of the cultivation or habits 

 of this plant : it appears to be a perennial, striking freely 

 from cuttings of the ripened stems, and flowering in abund- 

 ance from June to September. Whether it will bear our 

 winters without protection, is to be doubted; it will pro- 

 bably require the covering of a franie at that season, to be 

 turned into the open border during the summer. The 

 scarlet of the flowers rivals that of the Lobelia splendens. 



Stems spreading, round, ascending, hairy. Leaves op- 

 posite, oblong-lanceolate, coarsely serrated, tapering into 

 a short petiole, hispid on each side, especially at the veins. 

 Flowers arranged in a corymbose stalked spike. BractecB 

 hispid, subulate, shorter than the calyx. Calijx hispid. 

 Corolla longer than the calyx, bright scarlet ; the segments 



flat, oblong, emarginate, the lower larger than the others. 



J. L. 



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