plant is as well adapted for greenhouse cultivation as Mono- 

 chcetum, and is far more beautiful, it is one of the most 

 ■valuable acquisitions to our houses of late years. 



Descr. A small, rather slender, straggling subscandent 

 undershrub, covered with spreading, villous hairs. Leaves 

 on petioles half an inch long; blade an inch and a half to 

 two inches long, ovate, acute, quite entire, rounded or cor- 

 date at the base, five- to seven-nerved, hairy on both surfaces, 

 bright green above, paler below. Flowers two to two and a 

 half inches in diameter, deep violet and very handsome, in 

 small, few-flowered panicles at the ends of the branchlets ; 

 peduncles and pedicels short, villous. Calyx-tube broadly 

 ovoid ; lobes longer than the tube, spreading, subulate-lan- 

 ceolate. Petals broadly obovate-cuneate, retuse. Anthers 

 dark purple, with green connectives filaments and tubercles ; 

 the longer with the connective produced at the base, where 

 it bears two tubercles ; smaller anthers with the connective 

 tubercled, but not produced. — /. I). II. 



Fig. 1. Large, and 2, small stamens. 3. Calyx, ovary, and style. 4. 

 Transverse section of ovary. 5. Capsule :— all magnified. 



