Tas.. 6747, 
TORENTA Fourniekl. 
Native of Oochinchina. 
Nat. Ord. ScropHvuLARINEZ.—Tribe GRATIOLEX. 
Genus Torenta, Linn.; (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. vol.ii. p. 954.) 
ToREntA Fournieri; glaberrima, ramis suberectis, foliis longiuscule petiolatis 
ovato-cordatis acutis serratis, floribus axillaribus et in racemos t-rininales 
dispositis, pedicellis suberectis foliis multo brevioribus, calycibus ellipsoideis 
ovatisve late alatis breviter 5-dentatis, corolla tubo calyce subduplo longiore, 
_ limbi ampli labio superiore latiore quam longo pallide lilacino, inferioris lobis 
rotundatis late violaceis intermedio basi aureo, filamentis omnibus inappendi- 
culatis. 
T. Fournieri, Lind. ; Fournier in Ill. Hortic. vol. xxiii. t.249; Charton in Rev. 
Hortic. 1876, p. 465, cum Ic. aylog.; Regel, Gartenfl. t. 927; Morren, 
Belgique Hortic. 1879, t. 1. 
Torenia Fournieri, which is the most beautiful species of — 
the genus hitherto introduced into cultivation, has been 
often confounded with 7’. asiatica (Plate 4249), from which 
it differs wholly in the terminal and more or less racemose 
inflorescence, as well as in the form of the calyx and much 
brighter colour of the corolla. It belongs, indeed, to 
another section of the genus, which I established in the 
Flora of British India (vol. iii. p. 278), distinguished by 
the inflorescence, and to which 7. flava (Bot. Mag., tab. 
6700) belongs, together with the 1’. ciliata of Penang, a 
species not hitherto brought into cultivation, and evidently 
closely allied to 7’. Fournieri. The genus is an Asiatic one, 
and other species figured in this work are 7. cordifolia, 
tab. 3715; T. peduncularis, tab. 4229; T. asiatica and 
I’. flava, mentioned above. From all these, and probably 
from all others of the genus, 7’. Fournieri differs, in having 
no tooth at the base of the longer filaments. 
T’. Fourniert was introduced by Mr. Linden from seed 
sent from Mr. Godefroy from Cochinchina, and is now a 
well-established favourite in warm greenhouses and stoves, 
flowering throughout the summer months. 
4PRIL Ist, 1884, 
