from Peru, and flowered by Messrs. Veitch in September, 
1874. The species varies greatly in the size of the corolla, 
some of those in the Herbarium having the limb not half an 
inch in diameter. 
Descr. An annual, nearly glabrousherb. Stems obtusely 
4-conous, two to five feet high, green. Leaves opposite, 
petioled, ovate or elliptic-ovate, acuminate, narrowed into the 
petiole, coarsely, sharply serrate, the serratures mucronate, 
dark green and rugose above, paler beneath. Spike terminal, 
six to ten inches long, slender, strict, glabrous or puberulous; 
bracts ovate-subulate, green, appressed, much shorter than 
the calyx ; pedicels very short and stout. Calyx appressed 
to the rachis, two-thirds of an inch long, slender, slightly 
curved, tubular, with five small subulate teeth. Corolla-tube 
very slender, curved, twice as long as the calyx; limb an 
inch and a half in diameter, pale red-purple; lobes spreading, 
broadly orbicular-oblong, tips rounded, two upper smallest, 
lower largest. Filaments short, anthers ovate. Ovary narrow, 
ovoid. Capsule shorter than or slightly exceeding the calyx. 
—J. D. H. 
Fig. 1, Calyx, style, and stigma; 2, portion of corolla-tube and stamen; 3, 
ovary :—all magnified. 
