border. The plant figured under this name in Sweet's 

 Flower Garden (v. ii. t. 109) is, as Mr. Baker has pointed 

 out to me, no doubt the S. confusa, Benth., easily distin- 

 guished by its whiter, more minutely rugose leaves, aud pale 

 flowers. 



Descr. Stem erect, shrubby below ; branches, inflorescence, 

 and calyx covered with viscid down. Branches slender, four- 

 angled, erect, rather distantly leafy. Leaves six to ten inches 

 long, spreading, pinnatisect, green and coarsely rugose above, 

 clothed below with white tomentum ; terminal lobe two to 

 three inches long, oblong- ovate, obtuse or acute, rounded or 

 cordate at the base, strongly nerved, coarsely reticulate and 

 deeply pitted beneath, margin irregularly crenate ; lateral 

 segments distant, often alternately large and oblong and small 

 and rounded, sessile or shortly petioled. Whorls of flowers nu- 

 merous, two to three inches apart, five to ten flowered. Flowers 

 nearly sessile ; bracts minute, ovate, acute ; bracteoles shorter, 

 broader. Calyx viscid, half an inch long, deeply grooved, 

 tubulin- campanulate, shortly two-lipped; teeth triangular, 

 acute, upper dorsal very small, obtuse. Corolla one inch and 

 a quarter long by one inch diameter, dark violet purple, 

 with a white throat ; tube exserted, nearly straight, smaller 

 at the throat, red purple. Upper lip short, nearly horizontal, 

 laterally compressed, obcordate, two-lobed at the apex ; lower 

 lip three-lobed ; lateral lobes broad, rounded, reflexed ; middle 

 rather deeply lobed, rounded, recurved; palate prominent, 

 and throat white with purple streaks. Anther cells separated 

 by a curved connective, upper linear oblong, lower smaller. 

 Disk large, four-lobed. Style slender. — /. B. H. 



Fig. 1, Tips of filaments and anthers, with rudiments of the lower pair of 

 stamens between them ; 2, calyx and style ; 3, disk and ovary :— all mag- 

 nified. 



