' 
Nees studied the Acanthacee of the Hookerian Herbarium, he 
had under his eye indifferent specimens of this plant, col- — 
lected in Peru by Matthews, which he surely would have 
referred to his Jacobinia ciliata had he thought it the same. 
I am indebted to Prof. Oliver for pointing out the close 
affinity of this plant with the Beloperone violacea, Planch. 
(Tab. Nost. 5244); <Adhatoda Carthaginensis, Nees, in DC. 
Prod., v. ii. p. 403; and to Messrs. Veitch for the specimen 
here figured, which was raised from Venezuelan seeds. It is 
also a native of Panama and Peru. 
Duscr. Stem slender, branched, herbaceous, one to two 
feet high, geniculated at the base; branches obscurely 
4-gonous, upper puberulous; nodes tumid. Leaves shortly 
petioled, two to three inches long, ovate or ovate-lanceo- 
late, acute, membranous, green, glabrous, but so full of 
raphides, as, when dried, to appear to be covered with 
appressed hairs. Sowers axillary and _ terminal, sessile 
in shortly peduncled fascicles. Bracts and bracteoles narrow, 
subulate, rigid, erect, exceeding the calyx, ciliate. Calyx 
5-partite, segments rigid, erect, subulate-lanceolate, ciliate, 
about half the length of the corolla tube. Corolla 
violet, with a white palate; tube three-quarters of an inch 
long, cylindric; upper lip very small, concave, recurved, 
2-lobed ; lower lip one to one and a quarter inch diameter, 
broader than long, deeply 3-lobed, lobes orbicular-ovate, 
obtuse, flat. Stamens not exserted, filaments short; anther- 
cells linear-oblong, diverging below, not spurred, connective 
rather broad. Disk annular. Overy glabrous ; stigma minute, 
2-lobed. Capsule compressed; upper half ovoid, acute, 
lower much contracted.— J. D. H. 
Fig. 1, Bracts, bud, and style; 2, calyx and style; 3, stamens; 4, disk 
and ovary; 9, vertical section of ditto :—all magnified. 
