Tas. 4271. 
‘ SCUTELLARIA Venrtenatu. 
Ventenat’s Skull-cap. 
Nat. Ord. Lagiat2.— DIpyNAMIA GYMNOSPERMIA. 
Gen. Char. (Vide supra, TaB. 4268.) 
ScureLiartra Ventenatii; perennis, herbacea, erecta, ramosa, ubique molliter tenui- 
pubescens, pilis glandulosis, ramis subteretibus, foliis longe petiolatis cras- 
siusculis cordato-ovatis obtusiusculis grosse serratis penninerviis subreti- 
- eulatis atro-viridibus, racemis terminalibus elongatis subsecundis (yv. sub- 
distichis), bracteis valde deciduis angustis (inf. subovatis), calyce parvo, 
corollis elongatis (coccineis) calyce multoties longioribus, labio superiore 
profunde 4-fido. 
ScuTELLARIA incarnata. Vent. Choix des Pl. t. 29, lower figure. 
We have here the pleasure to figure a still more beautiful 
Scutellaria than that represented at our Tab. 4268 (S. xcarnata), 
to which we there alluded, with far richer coloured flowers, and 
in other respects a good deal resembling it. Indeed, we have 
already, in that description, given it as our opinion that Ventenat 
had confounded this plant with the ixcarnata. They are, how- 
ever, truly distinct from each other, as indicated by the above 
characters, and from S. coccinea, H.B.K., in the cordato-ovate 
and serrated (not oblong and entire) leaves. The present species 
was detected in the mountains near Sta. Martha by Mr. Purdie, 
and seeds were sent home by him in 1845, which were reared in 
the summer and autumn of 1846. It has been treated as a 
Greenhouse plant, but would doubtless flourish and prove highly 
ornamental to our flower-borders. Z 
Descr. Root perennial. Stem erect, simple or branched, four- 
sided. Leaves opposite, on rather long petioles, cordato-ovate, 
soft and downy, but of a thickish and rather fleshy texture, 
reticulately veined, and coarsely serrated. Racemes terminal, 
elongated. Pedicels short, the lower ones opposite, the rest 
alternate. Bractee deciduous. Calyx as m the genus, green, 
the crest smaller than in S. incarnata, downy. Corolla deep and 
bright scarlet, with the ‘ude much elongated, slender below, 
DECEMBER Ist, 1846. * 
