tings and soon blossoms, flowering through most of the summer 

 months, treated as a stove-plant. 



Descr. Plant a foot and more high, slightly branched, having 

 appressed hairs. Leaves opposite, petiolate, ovate, acute, entire, 

 obliquely penninerved, with impressed veins above, prominent 

 beneath, covered with rather close-pressed, silky-brownish hairs. 

 Panicle on a peduncle, considerably longer than the leaves, not 

 much, but trichotomously divided, the middle branch often single- 

 flowered, the lateral ones again divided. Branches tinged with 

 purple. Bracteas opposite, ovate, greenish-purple. Calyx large, 

 lax, of the same colour as the bracteas, obtuse and oblique at the 

 base, two-lipped ; upper lip of three, lower of two deep, ovate, acu- 

 minated segments. Corolla large, handsome, rich purple, reddish 

 and paler in the tube. Tube broadly infundibuliform, ventricose 

 beneath. Limb two-lipped, moderately spreading, upper of two, 

 lower of three nearly equally sized rounded lobes. Lower palate 

 having two raised yellow lines. Stamens included, two fertile 

 filaments angled or geniculated outside near the middle, their 

 anthers reniform connate ; two other stamens are small and abor- 

 tive, and there is an imperfect rudiment of a fifth. Ovary linear- 

 oblong, seated upon a fleshy disk. Style elongated. Stigma of 

 two spreading somewhat triangular plates, white. Fruit long 

 linear, siliquiform, tapering into the long persistent style. I have 

 not seen it mature. 



Pig. 1. Corolla laid open. 2. Pistil :— slightly magnified. 



