Tas. 6797. 
_A.—TORENIA ooncotor. 
B.—TORENIA Forpu. 
Natives of China. 
Nat. Ord. ScroPHULARINER.—Tribe GRaTIOLER. 
Genus Torenta, Linn.; (Benth, et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. vol. ii. p. 954.) 
Torgnta concolor; glabra v. parce pubescens, ramis elongatis diffusis, foliis petio- 
latis ovatis ovato-cordatisve acutis serratis, pedunculis axillaribus foliis 
longioribus, calycibus elongatis sub-bilabiatis angulis anguste alatis, corolla 
violacew concoloris tubo exserto lobis amplis, filamentis anticis dente auctis, 
ovario tereti. 
T. concolor, Lindl. in Bot. Reg. t. 62. 
T. longiflora, Morren in Ann. de Gand. vol. ii. pp. 441, 471. 
T. rubens, var. grandiflora, Benth. Fl. Hongkong, p. 250. 
T. asiatica, Linn., var. concolor, Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. vol. iii. p. 277. 
Torsn1a Fordii; erecta, pubescens, foliis breviter petiolatis late ovato-rotundatis 
v. -cordatis obtusiusculis serratis utrinque pubescentibus, pedunculis sub- 
terminalibus et axillaribus foliis multo brevioribus, calycibus brevibus angulis 
vix alatis, corolle parve straminez tubo breviter exserto, lobis brevibus 
latioribus quam latis lateralibus plaga violacea notatis, filamentis anticis dente 
auctis, ovario 5-costato. 
The Torenias, which are now becoming favourites in 
cultivation from their beautiful colours and long periods of 
blooming, form one of the most puzzling of genera to the 
botanist who has to discriminate the species, which have 
been, for the most part, described from miserably-bad 
herbarium specimens. (eee 
When studying the genus for the “Flora of British India,” 
I gave much time to the attempt to unravel the species and 
fix their nomenclature, with little success, I fear. The 
next best thing to be done is to cultivate them, and have 
_them figured under such names as cannot mislead. Happily 
several species have already been well figured in the 
Boranicat Macazine, which enable very good comparisons 
to be made. T. congolor I reduced in the * Flora of British 
- JANUARY Ist, 1885. 
