Jardin des Plantes in 189o, which flowered against a 

 S.E. wall in the open air in July, 1897. In the Jardin des 

 Plantes it forms a large ornamental shrub eight feet high, 

 flowering freely in July and August. 



Descr. — A tall shrub, very variable in foliage and hairy- 

 ness, with leaves and branchlets more or less tomentose in 

 a young state, glabrous, or nearly so when old; flowering 

 branchlets terete or tetragonous. Leaves opposite, the 

 petioles of each pair joined at the base by a raised line on 

 the branchlets, or by a small broad, green, recurved 

 stipular auricle, four inches to a foot long, from oblong- 

 lanceolate and obtuse to linear-lanceolate and caudate 

 acuminate, entire, crenate-toothed, or coarsely serrate, 

 dark green above, paler beneath ; petiole terete. Flowers 

 densely crowded in large, globose heads, which are 

 peduncled in the axils of the upper leaves, or collected in 

 erect, caudiform thyrsi, four to six inches long, very shortly 

 pedicelled; bracts subulate, about as long as the calvx, 

 and appressed to it, Calyx about one-tenth of an inch 

 long, slender, oblong, cleft into four narrow obtuse lobes. 

 Corolla-tube balf an inch long, slender, terete, sparsely 

 hairy withm ; limb about one-sixth of an inch in diameter 

 lobes orbicular, sub-crenate. Anthers sessile above the 

 middle of the tube, very small, oblong. Ooary oblong, 

 terete glabrous. Style short, stigma oblong, two-lobed. 

 Capsule one-quarter of an inch long, clavate.— -J. D. II. 



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