ducing the L. excelsa and nicotianefolia to one, but maintain 
the latter name as being the first published, viz. by Roemer 
and Schultes in 1819, whilst that of excelsa did not appear 
till 1824, in Wallich’s edition of Roxburgh’s ‘ Flora Indica.’ 
Descr. A tall, stout, herbaceous plant, six to twelve feet 
high, glabrous, or more or less pubescent, or even tomentose 
on the leaves below. Stem at the base as thick as the arm, 
simple or branched. eaves narrow lanceolate, one to two 
feet long, acuminate, denticulate, more or less narrowed into 
a’petiole ; veins prominent beneath. Raceme simple or com- 
pound, the branches a foot and upwards long, densely co- 
vered with close-set flowers forming pyramidal summits of a 
pale lilac colour. Bracts acuminate, toothed, the lower folia- 
ceous. Pedicels slender. Calyx-tube broadly hemispherical, 
five-ribbed ; /obes lanceolate, longer than the tube, serrate. 
Corolla an inch long, upper lip of two linear acuminate pen- 
dulous lobes, as long as the lower, which is three-cleft to the 
middle, the outer lobes linear, the middle ovate-lanceolate, 
and all acuminate. Anthers deeply blue, two of them bearded. 
Stigma two-lobed—J. D. H. 
Fig. 1, Calyx, style, and stigma,—magnified. 
