them is sometimes wholly concealed from the view of the 
travellers.” We are indebted for the plant in the Glasgow 
Botanic Garden to Professor Leumann of Hamburgh. - Its 
flowering season is August and September. Its nearest 
affinity is with L. Kraussii, Grah. in Bot. Mag. t. 3012, 
from which the calyx, corolla, and stamens are consider- 
ably different. 
Descr. In our plant the stem is nearly three feet high, 
erect, scarcely branched, rounded, dark purple, clothed 
with scattered leaves, spreading in all directions and nearly 
horizontally, four to six inches long, sessile, lanceolate, 
glabrous, acuminated, acutely serrated for their whole 
length. Peduneles solitary, axillary, slender, single-flow- 
ered, generally shorter than the leaves, curved gracefully 
downwards, but bearing the flower horizontally. Calyx 
with a short wrinkled tube, very obtuse at the base; seg- 
ments broadly lanceolate, erect, about as long as the tube, 
glabrous as well as the corolla, which is nearly two inches 
long, orange-red, tubular, but slit longitudinally above for 
the whole length, (in which slit the staminal tube is 
lodged,) two-lipped: upper lip of two linear, reflexed seg- 
ments ; lower lip of three narrow segments, which are 
combined and only three-toothed at the apex. Stamens 
united for their whole length into a long red tube : Anthers 
combined, very hairy : Stigma two-lobed. 
Fig. 1. Flower: nat. size. 
