possession of it. It produced its very large and handsome 
flowers in the greenhouse in July, 1837. 
Descr. , Plant three to four feet high. . Stem,stout, suf- 
fruticose below, then herbaceous, glabrous, as is every part 
of the plant, and angled and winged by the decurrent bases 
of the foliage. Leaves five to six inches and more long, 
lanceolate, much. acuminated, penninerved, closely and 
acutely serrated, even down to the decurrent bases, up- 
wards on the stem they gradually become smaller, and con- 
stitute lanceolate and subulate, always strongly serrated 
bracteas, among the, flowers. _ Pedicels spreading, about 
half an inch long. Calyx-segments about one-fourth the 
length of the corolla, erect, broadly subulate, fringed with 
rather distant, coarse serratures. Corolla rose-coloured, 
reflexed, cleft to the base above, and near the apex and 
near the base into five linear-acuminate segments ; so that 
it may almost be said there are five petals, cohering at the 
middle and at the apex. Filaments combined into a tube, 
deep rose-coloured above. Anthers lead-coloured, two of 
them bearded at the apex. Stigma curved down a little 
beyond the anthers, yellow. 
na Fig, ‘e Flower, the Corolla being removed. Magnified. 
