are each subtended by a filiform hairy dract. The calya is small, | 
cup-shaped, hairy, four-toothed, and fits close to the base of the 
tube of the corolla, which is pale violet, smooth, an inch and a 
half in length, funnel-shaped, with a nearly equally blunted and 
five-lobed, two-lipped dims, downy on the upper side. The sta- 
mens are those of Pentstemon, the sterile one being linear-spa- 
thulate, coarsely downy, and rather shorter than the shortest 
fertile ones. The fruit is an ovate capsule, naked at the point, 
but otherwise tightly invested with the coarse hairy calyx and 
its four filiform lobes; the dehiscence is through the back of 
the carpels. On a central, eventually loose, spongy placenta are 
closely packed, numerous, scrobiculate, small, oval, plano-convex 
seeds, edged with a narrow membrane, with a straight emédryo, 
lymg in the midst of albumen, and a well-defined, oval chalaza 
near the upper end.” Zzndi. 
It is a stove plant, and flowered with us in July. 
Fig. 1. Corolla laid open. 2. Calyx and pistil. 3. Immature capsule :— 
magnified. 
