Nigra, and other mountains about Santa Martha; Mr. Hartweg 
also in Colombia; Mr. Skinner in Guatemala (n. 1240); at 
Talea in Mexico, Hartweg (n. 496). From seeds sent by Mr. 
Purdie our plants were raised in the Royal Gardens of Kew in 
a warm stove, and kept in a Greenhouse during the period of 
flowering, the summer months. The species appears to be 
biennial, and is remarkable for the unusually green hue of the 
flowers. 
Desce. Stem erect, two to three feet or more high, nearly 
simple, till it forms the panicle, tetragonous, the angles very 
sharp, slightly winged. Leaves rather large, opposite, ovate, 
acute, the lower ones on short petioles, penninerved, the upper¬ 
most ones sessile, shorter and broader, three- to five-nerved, the 
upper pair very distant from the rest. Fanicle lax, dichotomous, 
its hranches terete. Flowers green, in secund racemes, on 
short bracteated pedicels. Calyx small, with five rather gibbous, 
ovate, obtuse segments. Corolla rather campanulate than infun- 
dibuliform, the base contracted and thence curved upwards; 
mouth oblique, Umh of five ovate, acute segments, soon revolute, 
at length withering and closing over the mouth, while the rest 
of the corolla is green. Stamens and style shorter than the 
corolla. Ovary inserted on a large gland or torus. 
Fig. 1. Stamens. 2. Pistil:— magnified. 
