correspondent, Mrs. Barber, for seeds of this plant, which 
arrived in 1870, and flowered in July of the present year. 
As aspecies D. Barbere agrees best with the description of 
D. macrophylla, Benth. (of which I have seen no specimen), 
but it differs in being apparently perennial, stout habit, 
and glandular raceme and filaments. 
‘Duscr. Root perennial ? Stem ten to sixteen inches high, 
strict, erect, square, glabrous, green. Leaves one to one and a 
half inches long, petioled, ovate, rounded at the tip, obtusely 
serrate, suddenly narrowed into the rather stout petiole, gla- 
brous, bright green on both surfaces; upper leaves sessile, 
smaller; petiole one-half to three-quarters of an inch long. 
Racemes terminal, strict, erect, four to six inches long, many- 
flowered, simple, bracteate ; bracts one-sixth to a quarter of 
an inch long, ovate, obtuse; pedicels slender, one-half to 
three-quarters of an inch long, glandular. Ca/ya a quarter of 
an inch in diameter, divided nearly to the base into five sub- 
equal linear-oblong obtuse or subacute segments. Corol/a one- 
half to two-thirds of an inch in diameter, bright rose-pink 
with a small yellow spot on the throat between the bases of 
the two upper petals, which spot has two green dots in its 
centre ; two upper lobes small, suborbicular ; two lateral about 
twice as large, and nearly of the same shape; lower lobe as 
large as all the others put together, obscurely four-angular ; 
spurs as large as the lower corolla lobe, diverging, cylindric, 
decurved, blue-purple towards their rather swollen tips. 
Stamens with short curved cylindrie glandular filaments, and 
small oblong anther-cells. Ovary quite glabrous.—J. D. H. 
Fig. 1, Flower; 2 and 3, stamens; 4, ovary :—all magnified. 
