Tas. 6700. 
~ TORENIA riava. 
Native of Cochin China and India. 
Nat. Ord. ScRoPHULARINEEZ.—Tribe GRATIOLER. 
Genus Toren, Linn.; (Benth, et Hook.f. Gen. Pl, vol. ii. p. 954.) 
TorEnta flava; caulibus suberectis v. prostratis elongatis glabris nodis inferioribus 
radicantibus, foliis petiolatis ovatis grosse crenatis glabris v. parce puberulis, 
floribus axillaribus solitariis et in racemos terminales dispositis, pedicellis calyce 
brevioribus, calyce oblongo plicato angulis non alatis, corolla tubo exserto 
superne et intus purpureo limbi aurei lobis rotundatis, filamentis longioribus 
basi unidentatis. 
T. flava, Ham. in Wall. Cat. 3957, A, B; Benth. Scroph. Ind. p. 38, et in DC 
Prodr. vol. x. p. 411. ‘ 
T. Bailloni, Godefroy in Ill. Horticole, vol. xxv. (1878), t. 324; E. Morren in 
ot ga Horticole, vol. xxix. (1879), pp. 22 et 29, t.1,£.2; Floral Magazine, 
» t. 331. 
PerRIsTEe1Ra racemosa, Griff. Notul. vol. iv. p. 120. 
The species of the beautiful genus Torenia are very 
difficult of discrimination, being variable in habit and in 
the size of the flower. In the first published plate of this 
plant (in the “Illustration Horticole”’), it is represented as 
suberect, with the flowers all towards the ends of the 
branches, and hence, through the reduction of the floral 
leaves, subracemose ; thus precisely according in habit and 
inflorescence with native specimens from India and Eastern 
Asia. In the “ Belgique Horticole ” there is a good figure 
of it (vol. xxix. t. 1), which represents the plant as erect, 
but with axillary flowers; and, lastly, in the ‘ Revue 
Horticole” (1879, p. 69) an excellent wood-cut represents 
it as with pendent branches and solitary axillary flowers, 
which accords with the habit of the plant as grown at Kew. 
T. flava was discovered in Assam by Buchanan Hamilton 
three-quarters of a century ago, and has since been found 
to extend southward to Tenesserim, and eastward to Siam 
and China. It was introduced into cultivation by M. Linden, 
JULY Ist, 1883. 
