other species, with this; and that his var. 8. alone is our plant. 
The very different colour and shape of the flowers would suffice 
to distinguish them. In his specific character, Ventenat calls the 
flowers “ incarnates”’; and in his description he speaks of them as 
“dun beau rouge”. If this latter colour applies to the lower 
figure, and the flesh-colour to the upper one, it would tend to 
confirm my opinion, that the latter is a representation of our 
present plant; the former being another species which we think 
we possess, and trust to be able to figure in this Magazine, 
in the next month’s Number. S. izcarnata differs from that in 
its narrower and more membranous leaves, borne on short foot- 
stalks, in the larger appendage to the calyx, deep-rose (rather 
than flesh-colour), with a shorter tube of the corolla, more 
dilated upwards, and in the almost entire upper lobe of the 
limb. It is a greenhouse plant, and being readily increased 
by cuttings, will doubtless be a great ornament to our flower- 
borders, if an entire bed is devoted to it. Flowers in July 
and August. 
Derscr. Stem a foot to a foot and a half high, erect, slender, 
branches opposite. Leaves opposite, on short petioles, ovate or 
ovato-lanceolate, slightly acuminate, membranaceous, coarsely 
serrated, penninerved, paler and downy beneath. Racemes 
terminal, many-flowered, the lower flowers opposite and some- 
times leafy, the rest alternate, bracteated ; dracteas small, but 
longer than the pedicels, linear-lanceolate. Pedice/s shorter than 
the calyx, which is slightly downy, two-lipped, bearing a red 
appendage or crest on the back, larger than the calyx. Corolla 
deep purplish rose-colour, glabrous; the dude slightly curved 
at the base, dilated upwards, two-lipped, lower Zip entire, ovate, 
upper fornicate, three-lobed (the lateral lobes entire, united with 
the superior one, which is scarcely emarginate). Stamens in- 
cluded. Ovaries four, small, glabrous, seated on a large fleshy 
gland or gynobase, which is downy in front. Style included, 
slender, curved at the base ; stigma bifid. : 
Fig. 1. Corolla laid open. 2. Calyx. 3. Pistil :—magnified. 
