flower from November to the end of January. The plant 
was then “ growing strongly, and will probably flower on 
all the branchlets of this young growth during the summer 
and autumn.’”’ The individual flowers last for a week or 
ten days before falling. The plant has since fruited with 
Mr. Gumbleton. 
Deser—A much-branched, hispid shrub, one to three 
feet high. ranches very slender, given off at right 
angles. Leaves opposite, often in unequal pairs, petiolate, 
thin, oval or orbicular, the largest, including slender 
petiole, about an inch long, coarsely toothed; ultimate 
veins finely reticulated. Flowers axillary, solitary, about 
an inch long; pedicels slender, about as long as the 
flowers. Calya hispid, equally five-lobed ; lobes lanceolate, 
acute, longer than the tube. Corolla glabrous, orange, 
longitudinally striped with red; limb two-lipped; upper 
lip smaller, emarginate ; lower lip deeply three-lobed; all 
the lobes rounded. Stamens four, the two longer ones © 
scarcely exserted. Capsule ovoid, acute, slightly over- 
topping the persistent calyx. Seeds minute-—W. BorrTine 
EMSLEY, 
Fig. 1, part of calyx and pistil; 2, corolla laid open; 3 and 4, front and 
back views of stamen; 5, cross section of ovary; 6, capsule from a dried 
specimen :—all except the last enlarged. 
