The species now figured is one of those discovered by 
Dr. Wallich on the mountains of the north of India; Gossain 
Than is the district more particularly mentioned as the native 
country of the plant, of which seeds were given by Professor 
DeCandolle to the Horticultural Society, in whose garden it 
flowered in November last. It is an exceedingly handsome 
and nearly hardy perennial, growing from two to three feet 
high in any dry situation, and requiring about the same 
treatment as Acanthus mollis; but it suffers from wet in 
winter, and consequently should be planted in a strong dry 
soil, and protected during winter by a hand-glass. It is in- 
creased freely from seeds, and flowers from July till late in 
the autumn. The stem is covered with soft hairs, which, 
when bruised, emit the smell of a Geranium. 
In DeCandolle’s Prodromus the stamens of Morina per- 
sica are described as four combined in pairs, although to all 
appearance there is but two. This singular speculation 
originated with Dr. Coulter, who seems to have been led to 
adopt it by finding the anthers of Morina persica four-celled 
instead of two-celled. But this circumstance is now known 
to be the typical structure of all regular anthers, and I can 
find nothing in M. longifolia to justify the theory. Indeed 
the three missing stamens of Morina are undoubtedly repre- 
sented by a kidney-shaped three-lobed gland at the base of 
the corolla. 
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