Tas. 5167. 
TORENIA HIrsvuTA. 
Hairy Torenia. 
Nat. Ord. ScROPHULARIACE®.—DIDYNAMIA ANGIOSPERMIA. 
Gen. Char. Calyx tubulosus, plicatus v. alatus, apice oblique 5-dentatus v. bi- 
labiatus. Corolla ringens, labio superiore emarginato vel bifido, inferiore trifido 
majore. Stamina postica fertilia, antica arcuata antherifera, basi appendice den- 
tiformi vel filiformi aucta. Anthere per paria arcte approximate vel coherentes. 
Stylus apice bilamellatus. Capsula oblonga, calycem non excedens.—Herbee 
gerontogee, tropice, vel parce ex orbe veteri allate etiam America tropica vigentes. 
Folia opposita. Racemi dreves, pauciflori, fasciculaformes, vel rarius elongati, ter- 
minales vel ramo excurrente falso axillares, vel in dichotomia ramorum siti. Benth. 
in De Cand. 
TorENIA hirsuta; diffusa, foliis petiolatis ovatis serrato-crenatis basi subcordatis, 
calycibus, elongatis 5-costatis exalatis basi obtusis, corolla calyce vix duplo 
longiore, filamentorum anticorum appendice subulata. Benth. 
Torenta hirsuta. Lamb. Ilust. t. 523. f.2. Benth. in De Cand. Prodr. v. 10. 
p. £10. 
TorENIA cordifolia. Benth. in Wall. Cat. n. 3954 (non Rowb.). 
From the stove of the Royal Gardens of Kew, where it was 
received from Messrs. Hugh Low and Son, of Clapton, who 
appear to be the first who have introduced the plant to our 
stoves. It certainly has many points in common with 7. Asia- 
tica, figured at our Tab. 4249, and is perhaps more beautiful 
than that favourite plant. The flowers are equally large, as well 
as more highly coloured, and more inclined to a reddish than a 
blue purple. The plant is not so straggling, but more compact, 
the leaves shorter, less acuminate, less sharply serrated ; and they, 
and the whole plant (and even the corollas), are hoary with fine, 
short, canescent hairs. The calyx is considerably different in 
shape, both in the state of bud, and after its full expansion, 
much less acuminated at the apex; more obtuse at the base, 
and the upper lip is always deeply bipartite (as accurately re- 
presented in the otherwise indifferent figure of Lamarck), which 
seems never to be the case with 7. Asiatica. It flowers at dif- 
FEBRUARY IsT, 1860. 
