plant to a high degree of perfection. In the Glasgow Gar- 
den it attained a height of four feet in the open border, 
and its handsome flowers continued in beauty during a 
great part of the summer and autumn. Professor LinpLEy 
observes that the cuttings strike freely, by which the plant 
may be increased as well as by seeds. 
Descr. Root perennial. Stem three to four feet high, 
erect, branched upwards, glabrous, dark purple. Leaves 
opposite, lanceolate, spreading horizontally, sessile, quite 
glabrous and entire, the upper ones are broader, that is, 
ovate and sharply acuminated, becoming gradually smaller, 
so that the uppermost. may be considered bracteas. The 
upper part of the plant may be regarded as a large pani- 
cle, the peduncles being opposite, much elongated, and 
bearing umbels of three to five or six large handsome 
flowers. Calyx deeply cut into five broadly ovate, acute 
segments, green, tipped with purple. Corollas drooping, 
rich, dark, reddish-purple : the tube slightly curved, narrow 
at the base, gradually enlarging upwards, so as to be sub- 
campanulate ; the limb two-lipped, within white, streaked 
with dark purple veins, the upper lip two-, the lower three- 
lobed ; all the lobes ovate, acute. Stamens and style as 
long as the tube. Anthers two-lobed, dark purple: barren 
Jilaments enlarged upwards, with a fringe of a few hairs 
at the extremity. Germen ovate, green : Style purplish : 
Stigma obtuse. 
Fig. 1. Calyx and part of the Corolla, with the four Stamens, abortive 
Filament and Pistil: magnified. 
