in their suffruticose, unbranched habit ; in the stout, brittle, 

 terete stem, with very thick pith and white spongy bark ; in 

 the small corymbose pink flowers, being produced from the 

 stem, chiefly below the leaves ; and which are succeeded by 

 small white transparent berries. They are probably biennial 

 in duration, as our plant, which flowered in an intermediate 

 stove, died soon afterwards. 



Descr. Stern two to three feet high, simple, erect, flexuous, 

 terete, as thick as a swan's quill ; upper part, petioles, young 

 leaves below, nerves of the old leaf, and inflorescence, covered 

 with a soft buff-yellow wool. Leaves opposite, six to ten 

 inches long, shortly petioled, obovate-lanceolate or elliptic, 

 acute, narrowed into the petiole, obtusely toothed ; nerves 

 numerous, parallel, diverging. Corymbs crowded at the nodes 

 beneath the leaves, much branched, branches very slender, 

 divaricating ; bracts at the forks, subulate, small. Calyx-lobes 

 one-fourth inch long, subulate-lanceolate, acuminate. Corolla 

 one-third inch in diameter, bright pink, with a two-lobed, 

 blood-red spot at the base of the upper lip ; upper lip rather 

 smaller, broadly two-lobed, lower lip three-lobed, lobes sub- 

 equal, orbicular. Stamens inserted at the base of the corolla- 

 tube, filaments very short ; anthers subglobose, dark purple. 

 Ovary ovoid, narrowed into a short, subulate, curved style. 

 Bisk annular. Berry one-third inch in diameter, subglobose, 

 white, transparent, many-seeded. — /. D. H. 



Fig. 1, Side; 2, front view of flower ; 3, corolla laid open ; 4, ovary and 

 disk ; 5, transverse section of ditto : — all magnified. 



