will, I hope, recover some ; but it is obviously impossible for 

 any single establishment to afford time, space, and labour to 

 cultivate everything worth keeping, greatly as it is to be 

 desired ; it is to local institutions and private establishments 

 that we must look for special collections ; and if more ot the 

 latter would, instead of aiming at all the novelties of the 

 day, strive to form complete collections of certain classes of 

 ornamental plants, the number of these would be greatly 

 increased, and science as well as horticulture be benefited 

 accordingly. 



Descr. A tall, stout, erect perennial. Stems glabrous 

 below, pubescent or subtomentose above, obtusely quadran- 

 gular. Leaves one to two inches long, subsessile, ovate-cor- 

 date, obtuse ; margins recurved, coarsely irregularly crenate, 

 minutely scabrous above, glandular-pilose below. Cymes very 

 numerous in all the upper axils, suberect, umbellate, many- 

 flowered. Flowers on slender pedicels, of a rich orange- 

 yellow, passing into bright orange-red. Calyx lobes broadly 

 ovate. Upper lip of corolla small, reflexed; lower large, 

 ascending, slipper-shaped, obscurely iobed in front. — /. D> -"• 



Fig. 1. Stem and branch. 2. Flower: — magnified. 



