of the same year. It is a very elegant pot-plant, of grace- 

 ful habit, flowering profusely. 



Descr. — A very slender, diffusely branched annual, de- 

 cumbent below, with ascending, loosely leafy branches 

 four to six inches long, sparsely covered with spreading 

 hairs. Leaves alternate, rather distant, uniform, one-third 

 to half an inch long, broadly ovate, obtuse, coarsely irre- 

 gularly crenate, glabrous on both surfaces, but ciliate on 

 the margins, pale green above, reddish purple beneath, 

 base narrowed into a ciliate petiole shorter than the blade. 

 Flowers from the upper leaf axils, and loosely racemed at the 

 ends of the branches ; pedicels very slender, lower up to an 

 inch and a half long, bracteate at the base. Bracts much 

 shorter than the pedicels, linear or lanceolate, crenate, 

 green, the lower broader and foliaceous. Calyx-tube 

 minute, obconic, lobes a fifth of an inch long, subulate, 

 ciliate, spreading. Corolla-tube longer than the calyx- 

 lobes, cylindric, hairy within ; limb 2-lipped, lower lip 

 half an inch broad, deeply three-lobed, lobes sub-equal, 

 broadly ovate, acute, spreading, white below the middle, 

 with a violet spot at each sinus, wholly violet beyond the 

 middle ; upper lip of two small, oblanceolate, acute, parallel, 

 spreading or deflexed violet segments. Filaments free, 

 hairy below; anthers small, oblong, three with bearded 

 tips. Ovary turbinate, very short, style glabrous, base 

 conical, stigma small, hemispheric, bifid, girt with a rino- 

 of hairs.— J. D.H. 



Fig. 1, Flower; % ovary, calyx, and stamens ; 3, ovary -.—All enlarged. 



