nectiva are not produced below the point of insertion, but 
merely articulated on the filament. It also bears some 
affinity to Meriandra; and has very much the habit, and 
some of the characters, of Origanum. It certainly, how- 
ever, constitutes a distinct genus, intermediate between 
those three; and as the genus I had, in my notes on Labiatoe 
in a former Number of the Register, dedicated to my friend 
M. Audibert, of Tarascon, proves, on a closer examination, 
not to be distinguishable from Pulegium, a section of 
Mentha, I am happy in having this opportunity of retain- 
ing the name of that distinguished promoter of Botanical 
and Horticultural science for so interesting a plant as the 
present one." 
For the foregoing account of this curious plant we are 
indebted to Mr. Bentham. We have little to add, except 
that it is quite hardy, grows readily in common Garden 
soil, flowers from July to September; but is not propagated 
readily by cuttings. It has not yet produced seeds. 
Mr. Douglas found it on the plains of the Colombia, 
near the Priest's Rapid, and on the clayey hills near the 
Big Birch, in 1826. 
E Se forms an inelegant plant, about a foot and a half 
igh. : 
J. L. 
