Descriprion.— Biennial or perennial, clothed with glandu- 
lar hairs. Stems in cultivation 4-6 ft. long. Leaves 
alternate, stalked, ovate-oblong, lower 6 in. long, gradually 
smaller upwards, uppermost bract-like and sessile, irregu- 
larly lobed and toothed or only toothed ; teeth very acute. 
Flowers pink, tinged with yellow and beset with darker 
spots in the throat, axillary, solitary, distinctly stalked, 
nodding ; stalks shorter than the flowers. Calya campanu- 
late, about 1 in. long, deeply 5-lobed ; lobes narrow, pointed, 
uppermost longer than the others. Corolla 3-4 in. long ; 
tube broad, ventricose, curved; limb .2-lipped, 24-23 in. 
across, lobes rounded, spreading. Stamens 4, didynamous, 
much shorter than the corolla; filaments slender; anthers 
connivent in pairs with divergent cells. Ovary glabrous ; 
style included. Capsule not seen.— W. Borrine Hemsury. 
Cuirivation.—This handsome herbaceous plant is pro- 
bably a perennial, but under cultivation it is most satisfactory 
when treated as a biennial. The seeds are sown in a little 
warmth in May, and the young plants are grown in a frame 
till the followmg May, when they are planted in an open 
border, where by July they are from 4 feet to 6 feet high 
and in full flower. Or they may be grown in pots and 
treated as greenhouse plants. In the warmer parts of the 
country this plant has proved hardy. It ripens seeds freely 
at Kew.—W. Warson. 
_ Fig. 1, portion of base of corolla-tube and stamens; 2 and 3, front and back 
view of anther; 4, pistil:—all enlarged. 
