leaves too coarse and common-looking to render ita general 
favourite. The specimen here figured flowered in the stove 
of the Botanic Garden in July, 1837. 
Descr. Stem tall, herbaceous, acutely four-angled, and 
furrowed between the angles, obsoletely downy. Leaves 
remote, in opposite pairs, on very long stalks: the lower 
ones large and broadly heart-shaped, very coarsely serrated, 
gradually becoming smaller, narrower, and less serrated 
upwards, till at length they are linear, entire, and scarcely 
an inch long. Flowers in dense, axillary, remote clusters, 
frequently two to three inches in diameter. Bracteas linear- 
lanceolate, spinous. Calyx an inch long, tubular, narrow 
below and hairy ; upper tooth large, ovate, tapering into a 
sharp spine, three lower ones reflexed, two side ones small. 
Corolla scarcely longer than the calyx, bright red, and 
densely clothed with red velvety hairs, the margins ciliated. 
Anthers yellow, protruded. 
Fig. 1. Flower :—nat. size. 
