species; and both in the wild and cultivated plant vary 
from 3 to 4 in a whorl. It is a perennial, and easily 
cultivated in common soil. 
** Stem round, branching, red, smooth, and wiry, a foot 
to 16 inches high. Leaves sessile, linear, acute, widely 
and unequally dentate, in threes round the stem, the upper 
or floral ones perfectly entire and glabrous. Flowers axil- 
lary, panicled, with upright, rarely more than 3-flowered 
peduncles, clothed with very fine, long, white, entangled 
hairs. Segments of the calyx ovate, acute, hairy in the 
same degree as the peduncles. Corolla tubular, some- 
what ventricose, pale rose colour, with dark veins, nearly 
equally 5-cleft. Upper filaments dilated at the base. Anther 
smooth, white. Rudiment filiform, bearded half way down 
at the upper side.” — Douglas. 
J. L. 
