Dr. Kotschy, the author of the hitherto unpublished work 

 in which this plant is figured, is recently deceased. 



Thinea is a stove plant, of which seeds were sent home by 

 Mdlle. Tinne's party, and were raised at Liverpool, by Mr. 

 Sandbach, in 1865 ; and it is no less remarkable for the 

 maroon-purple colour of its flowers, than for their delicious 

 perfume of violets. It flowered copiously at Mr. Williams's 

 Nursery at Holloway, and at Kew, last winter. The genus 

 belongs to the division Stachydeoe, of the Order Labiatce. 



Desce. A hoary bush, four to six feet high. Steins and 

 branches erect, terete, ribbed, twiggy. Leaves on short slen- 

 der pedicels, ovate, subacute or acute, quite entire, narrowed 

 at the base; nerves faint. Floivers copiously produced in 

 all the upper axils ; in native specimens, arranged in terminal 

 elongate spikes. Peduncles two- to three-flowered, bracteate. 

 Calyx bright green, ventricose, depressed, two-lipped; the 

 lips broad, transversely flattened, quite entire. Corolla dark 

 maroon-purple, tube broad, little longer than the calyx ; 

 limb compressed horizontally, two-lipped, upper lip short, 

 almost truncate, two-lobed, lower advanced, nattish, three- 

 lobed, lateral lobes small rounded, middle large, orbicular, 

 emarginate. Stamens four, with parallel filaments, bearded 

 at the very base ; anthers small, concealed under the upper 

 lip, attached laterally to the filament, reniform, two-celled. 

 Style slender. — /. D. H. 



Fig. 1. Corolla laid open. 2. Ovary, style and stigma and disk:— hoik 

 magnified. 



