given too much blue to the flowers we examined. We under- 
stand indeed that the corolla is really of a bright carmine. 
We have not seen the plant in cultivation in this coun- 
try : but it is evidently a soft-wooded species, to be treated in 
the same manner as Pelargoniums. 
It differs from H. fasciculatus in its small bracts, and less 
conspicuous flowers, which moreover are smooth, not downy ; 
from H. tomentosus in the shortness of the lobes of the corolla, 
the broadness of the leaves, the smoothness of the calyx, and 
the terminal, not lateral, flowers ; from H. corymbosus in not 
being destitute of hairs. 
