Tas. 6615. 
SCUTE LLARIA Harrweci. 
Native of the Andes of Quito. 
Nat. Ord. Lapratm.—-Tribe NepeTer. 
Genus Scurennaria, Linn. ; (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. vol. ii. p. 1201.) 
ScurELiarta (Heteranthesia) Hartwegi; gracilis, erecta, caule petiolis et inflo- 
rescentia puberulis, foliis petiolatis ovatis subacuminatis remote crenato-serratis 
basi rotundatis truncatis v. cordatis supra glabris subtus rubro-purpureis nervis 
puberulis, floralibus minutis linearibus herbaceis, racemo simplici erecto, floribus 
alternis breviter pedicellatis, calyce brevi 2-fido, corolla pilosa pollicari coccinea 
lente curva, tubo gracili superne lente inflato, limbo parvo, labio superiore 
brevi obtuso, inferiore decurvo brevi subrotundato violaceo breviter 3-fido, 
ovario stipitato stipite obliquo basi tumido. 
S. Hartwegi, Benth. Pl. Hartweg. p. 244, et in DC. Prodr. vol. xii. p. 415. 
This handsome plant belongs to a section of Andean 
Scutellarias, the limits between which are hard to define. 
The type of them is 8S. coccinea, Kunth, a species discovered 
_ by Humboldt, and described as having obtuse quite entire 
leaves, violet-purple beneath, and scarlet flowers. Still 
nearer to the present plant is S. Ventenatii of this work 
(Plate 4271), in which the leaves are green beneath, and the 
scarlet corollas shorter, with a broader limb of one colour ; 
it hardly differs from S. incarnata, Vent. (Plate 4268), of 
which a variety, T’rianai, is figured at Plate 5185. In fact 
Bentham, the accurate monographer of the genus, gives it 
as his opinion, as quoted under the last-cited plant, that 
S. incarnata, Ventenatii, and Hartwegi may be varieties of 
one species. Whatever may be the case with the first two 
of these three, the last (our plant here figured) may at once 
be distinguished from both by the longer more slender 
corolla with the limb scarcely broader than the tube, and 
by the larger leaves being of a beautiful violet-purple 
beneath. 
MARCH Ist, 1882, 
LJ . 
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