lower side; the flowers are of a delicate, very transparent 
violet blue; and the bractex, which remain long after the 
flowers have fallen, being of a warm lavender colour, and 
closely covered with transparent glands, give an air of 
beauty to the plant when the flowers themselves have 
fallen. 
It is a tender, greenhouse plant, propagated by cuttings: 
a cold greenhouse would not suit it, and a stove ‘appears to 
be too hot for it. 
J. L. 
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