feet ah i\e the level of the sea. A plant of it, which I 

 brought home alive with me last year, has been in flower for 

 some time in the Glasgow Botanic Garden, and I am in- 

 debted to Miss Murray for the characteristic figure which 

 accompanies this description. It differs from P. integri- 

 folia, St. Hil., (see Bot. Mag. t. 3948,) in having narrower 

 and more acuminated leaves, smaller and paler coloured 

 flowers, besides being nearly all over densely pubescent, in 

 which latter respect it agrees with P. montana, and P. pu- 

 bescens of St. Hilaire, but they are otherwise very distinct 

 species. Prom the elevation at which it grows, I have no 

 doubt that it will succeed better in the greenhouse than in 

 the stove. 



Descr. In its native place of growth, the plant has a 

 rambling, subscandent habit, the branches being sometimes 

 twelve to eighteen or twenty feet in length. The branches 

 are round, and densely pubescent. The leaves, both in the 

 wild and cultivated plant, are opposite, never ternate, ob- 

 long-lanceolate, acuminate, their margins slightly revolute 

 and distantly subdentate, pubescent both above and below, 

 the younger ones with a reddish tinge throughout, which, in 

 the older foliage, is confined to the margins, the midrib, and 

 the larger veins on the upper surface, but is very conspicu- 

 ous on the under surface and petioles, in length they are 

 trom two and a half to four and a half inches, and from ten 

 to eighteen lines broad; petiole four to six lines long, pubes- 

 cent, rounded below, above channelled. Pedicels solitary in 

 the axils of the upper leaves. Flowers, including the sta- 

 mens, from an inch and a half to two inches long, of a pale 

 crimson colour. Calycine segments acuminated, and slightly 

 renexed. Petals broadly cuneate, obtuse, deep purple. 

 stamens much exserted, of the same colour as the calyx. 

 Myle longer than the stamens. Stigma clavate, bilobed. 

 trermen oblong, smooth, green. Fruit oblong, quadran- 

 gular, of a dark purple colour when ripe. G. Gardner. 



