both the “ Flora of British India”? and in Dr. Prain’s 
monograph. In Dr. Prain’s system its proper place is in 
Division Longirostres, Siphonanthex, B. Brevitubxe, where it 
forms of itself a sub-division characterized by its slender, 
decumbent habit, and its capsules. It has no near ally as 
a species. 
I am indebted to A. K. Bulley, Esq., of Ness, Neston, 
Cheshire, for the specimen here figured of this very 
interesting plant. It was raised from seed sent by Dr. 
Prain from the Royal Gardens, Calcutta, and flowered in 
_ May of the present year. <o 
Descr.—Stems very slender, at first sub-erect, then 
elongating to a foot or more, flexuous and decumbent, 
simple or branched at the base. Leaves scattered, spread- 
ing and recurved, one to two inches long, oblong or ovate- 
oblong, pinnatisect (or the lowest pinnatifid), glabrous or 
puberulous ; segments seven to eleven, spreading, oblong, 
obtuse, margins irregularly crenate or lobulate; petiole 
puberulous. lowers solitary, axillary, pedicelled, about 
one inch long; pedicels erect, longer than the calyx, 
puberulous, fruiting decurved. Calyx-tube one-third of an 
inch long, narrowly oblong, split for one-third of its length ; 
limb of two small obovate-oblong crenate auricles. Corolla- 
tube not longer than the calyx ; lower lip sessile, two-thirds 
of an inch broad, pale rose-colrd., white towards the 
mouth, glabrous, three-lobed, lateral lobes obliquely 
rounded, median much smaller, orbicular, emarginate or 
obcordate ; upper lip puberulous, bright rose-red, erect 
and inflated, then arched, and forming a decurved, rather 
Slender beak. Filaments inserted about the middle of the 
corolla-tube, very slender, quite glabrous. Capsule a third 
of an inch long, falcately oblong, acute, clothed for half its 
length by the calyx.—J. D. H. 
Fig. 1, leaf; 2, flower; 3, calyx and style; 4, calyx laid open and ovary; 
o and 6, anthers :—all enlarged ; 7, portion of stem leaves and capsule of zat. 
size. 
