our winters, but requiring nothing more than the protec- 

 tion of a frame in winter. It is more interesting than 



beautiful. 



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The petals of the Garden plant are darker-coloured 



than they are described by its original d 

 calls them dilute coccinea. 



who 



Stems numerous, erect, taper, rough to the touch, a foot 

 and a half high. Leaves opposite, ovate-lanceolate, quite 

 entire, tapering to both ends, scabrous. Racemes short. 



few-flowered, from between the petioles 



Calv 



gibbous at the base, oblique at the apex, and 

 purple, 6-toothed, and inflated. Two petals oblong, deed 



purple, wavy, unguic 



four others very 



some 



times wanting. Stamens often 11, sometimes 12, with 

 hairy filaments, the longest of which are exserted. 



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