firured at t. 4249 of this work, and when the plant was 
originally dealt with in the light of herbarium material, the 
somewhat comprehensive view of the limits of 7. asiatica 
adopted by Bentham in 1846 (DC. Prodr. x. 410), and 
further extended by Hooker in 1884 (Fl. Brit. Ind. iv. 277), 
appeared to justify the inclusion of this Malayan plant in 
that familiar species. This view has not, however, been 
generally adopted. The material from which our figure 
and description have been prepared was obtained from a 
plant presented to Kew in 1909 by the late Col. Beddome, 
from his interesting collection of uncommon stove and 
greenhouse plants at Sispara, West Hill, Putney. Col. 
Beddome had originally obtained this plant from Sir F. 
Crisp, to whose collection at Friar Park, Henley, it had 
come, as 7. rubens, from an Erfurt nursery. This alterna- 
tive suggestion has some justification, for 7. rubens, Benth., 
like T. asiatica and like the plant here figured, has a 
calyx which is keeled only and not winged. But the colour 
of the corolla is very different in 7. rubens, and there 
appears little room for doubt that Mr. Ridley, to whom the 
plant. now figured is familiar in a wild state, is fully 
Justified in treating it as a distinct species. Like the other 
species of Zorenia in cultivation, 7. atropurpurea thrives 
well in a warm, moist house, and may be used as a basket 
plant or grown, where there are borders of soil, as under- 
growth, since the plants readily spread over the surface and _ 
flower freely. In its coloration and in the form of its 
corolla L. - atropurpurea provides a marked contrast to 
L. Fournieri, Linden, figured at t. 6747 of this work, the 
Species that is now perhaps most frequently employed in 
this way; another characteristic difference will be found 
in the fact that the stigmatic lobes of 7. atropurpurea are 
uot sensitive as is the case with those of 7. FMournert. 
Descriprion.—T//erb, perennial ; stems slender, branched 
and prostrate, sometimes rooting at the nodes, sparingly 
puberulous, sometimes reaching 2 ft. in length. Leaves 
petioled, ovate or deltoid-ovate, 211 in, long, 1-2 in. wide, 
acute, base cuneate or su btruncate, serrate, often scaberulous 
sbove, almost glabrous beneath ; petiole 2-3 lin. long. 
flowers usually solitary, peduncled at the ends of the stem 
aud branches. Peduneles 3-1 in. long, often geniculate, 
