Tas. 4249, i, 
TORENIA Asratica. 
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Large-flowered Torenia. 
Nat. Ord. ScropHuLaRINE®.—D1IpYNAMIA ANGIOSPERMIA. 
Gen. Char. (Vide supra, TaB. 4229.) 
ToreNta Asiatica; diffusa glabra y. tenuiter hirtella scabrella, foliis petiolatis 
 ovatis v. ovato-lanceolatis tenui-acuminatis, serrato-crenatis, calycibus elon- 
gatis basi acutis costis 5 subzequalibus v. 3 anguste alatis, corolla calyce 
plus duplo longiore, filamentorum anticorum appendicula subulata. 
Torenta Asiatica. Linn. Sp. Pl. p. 862. Spreng. Syst. Veget. v. 2. p. 800. Lam. 
Lil. t.523. f.1. Wight. Ic. Pl. Ind. Or. t. 862. Benth. in De Cand. Prodr. 
v.10. p.410. Wail. Cat. n. 3953. 
ToreNtA vagans. Roxb. Fl. Ind. v. 3. p. 96. 
Torentra hians. Rowd. J. ¢. 
It is not by any means easy for a painter to do justice to the 
rich purple-blue tinge of the flowers of this plant, which, with the 
size of the blossoms, the three dark purple blotches on the pale 
ground, together with the delicate yellow green of the rather 
copious foliage, renders this one of the most lovely plants that 
has lately been introduced to our stove-collections. It is an 
annual, and we are indebted for the seeds to W. Strachan, Esq., 
Twickenham, who received them from Curtallam. The plants 
blossomed through the summer of 1846, and as the cuttings 
strike freely, we find ourselves readily able to propagate the species 
Should the parent plants fail to bear seeds. Even amidst the 
splendid display of vegetable productions exhibited at the June 
show of the Chiswick Gardens, this attracted no small degree of 
public attention. It seems to have a very extensive range in the 
East Indies, growing throughout Bengal, in Amboyna, Ceylon, 
Mergui, Chittagong, Sylhet, in the Madras Peninsula, and, Dr. 
Wight adds, it is widely diffused in alpine regions. 
Descr. An annual, with quadrangular, pale green stems, 
exuous, erect or diffuse, branched, the dranches opposite. Leaves” 
Spposite, on short petioles, ovate, or ovato-lanceolate, much acu- 
Mnate, coarsely serrated, obtuse, scarcely cordate at the base, 
AUGUST IsT, 1846, 
