hot air, and water being comparatively scarce, or brought 
from a distance only, overwatering was not the pernicious 
practice it is now where the plants of dry countries are 
grown. : 
For the reintroduction of this beautiful green-house: 
plant we are indebted to Mr. Lynch of the Cambridge 
Botanical Gardens, an institution which, under his able 
management, is rapidly rising to eminence, as one of the 
very best in Europe. 
S. paniculata inhabits sandy places in the districts of 
Worcester and Clan William, and has also been gathered 
on the eastern side of Table Mountain by Ecklon. At 
Cambridge it flowers in the open air in August. Mr. 
Lynch received it four years ago from the Botanical 
Gardens of Ghent, and the specimen figured was from one 
taken from it and planted against a wall. He informs me 
that there was an old plant of it in a decaying state in the 
Cambridge Gardens, but that cuttings from it had failed. 
Descr. <A leafy erect shrub six to seven feet high, with 
scabrid red-brown stem, rounded branches, and glandular- 
pubescent panicles of large pale lilac-blue flowers. Leaves 
one to two inches long, coriaceous, obovate, acute or obtuse, 
irregularly toothed, scabrid on both surfaces ; base cuneate, — 
narrowed into a short petiole. Panicles laxly many- 
flowered; flowers in distant pairs, shortly pedicelled. 
Calyx one-third of an inch long, subcampanulate, scabrid, — 
two-lipped ; upper lip rounded, lower two-toothed. Corolla 
pale purplish blue, four times as long as the calyx, tube 
short, wide, upper lip one to one and a half inch long, 
narrow, sickle-shaped, obtuse ; lower nearly as long, di- 
lated, with three broad retuse lobes. Stamens included 
under the upper lip, filaments very short, connective very 
long, with a linear anther at the long upper end, the short 
lower end dilated.—J. D. H. 
Fig. 1, Section of flower; 2, anther; 3, filament and lower end of connective ; 
4, staminodes ; 5, top of style and its arms ;—all enlarged, 
