and from Mr. William Lobb (n. 389), gathered on mountains of 
San Bernardino, South California. If the flowers poe the 
rich blue colour of Hutoca viscida, it would indeed be a splendid 
ornament to our flower-borders. 
Dzscr. A bold, free-growing, somewhat decumbent, herbace- 
ous, branching p/ant ; in its native country three to five feet high 
(W. Lobb), everywhere clothed with short simple hairs, inter- 
mixed with glandular and viscid ones, which Mr. Nuttall ob- 
serves emit (when rubbed) a heavy, resinous, rather disagree- 
able smell, not unlike that of Rue. Branches terete, ascending. 
Leaves large, rather coarse, on short petioles, ovate, somewhat 
cordate at the base, sometimes approaching to rhomboid or tri- 
_ angular, doubly dentate, sometimes almost lobed at the margin, 
penninerved, nerves very prominent beneath. Flowers terminal 
on young superior branches, which (the leaves becoming gra- 
dually smaller) constitute a sort of leafy panicle of flowers. Ra- 
cemes scorpioid. Pedicels very short, erect, so that the calyx 
18S appressed to the rachis. Calyx cut into five, deep, linear, 
spreading, afterwards erect, segments, about as long as the tu- 
bular portion of the corolla. Corolla very large, almost two 
inches across, campanulato-rotate, purple (very pale externally), 
with a dark-purple ring and radiating lines at the faux. Lobes 
subrotundate, very obtuse ; ‘ube white. Stamens five, much ex- 
_ Sserted. Anthers oblong ; Jilaments subulate, hairy at the base. 
_ Ovary pyramidal, partially villous. Style short, trifid ; branches 
equal in length to the filaments of the stamens. 
Fig. 1. Stamen. 2, Pistil :—magnified. 
