T am indebted to Messrs. Veitch for the specimen figured 
of 8S. Hartwegi, which flowered in their nurseries in May, 
1881. Itis a native of the western declivity of the Andes 
of Quito, where it was discovered by Hartweg, who calls it 
a half-shrubby perennial. 
Drsor. A slender half-shrubby perennial, with pubescent 
branches petioles leaf-nerves beneath and inflorescence. 
Leaves two to two and a half inches long, ovate, acuminate, 
remotely obscurely crenate-toothed, base truncate rounded 
or cordate, dark green above, red-purple beneath ; petiole 
one-half to three-fourths of an inch long. tacemes four to 
six inches long, terminal, stout, erect, slender; floral 
leaves (or bracts) small, linear; pedicels alternate, one- 
eighth to one-sixth of an inch long. Flowers subsecund, 
an inch long, spreading. Calyx small, green; lips short, 
obtuse, upper horned in flower, the horn produced in fruit 
into a flat shield-like process. Corolla scarlet, hairy, many 
times longer than the calyx; tube slender, inflated beyond 
the middle; limb small, hardly broader than the tube; 
upper lip short, obtuse; lower rounded, decurved, violet- 
purple, three-fid. Stamens included; anthers small, didy- 
mous. Ovary four-lobed glabrous, terminating a stout 
ewe stipes which is tumid at the base. Style capillary.— 
ded}, A 
_ Fig. 1, Calyx and style; 2, corolla laid open; 3, ovary and its stipes; 4 and 5, 
side and back view of calyx of immature fruit :—ad/ enlarged. 
