a victim to the climate of Cuba, in the prime of life, and 
just as he was on the point of exploring the botanical riches 
of that portion of the United States, which, next to Texas, 
held out the best prospect of rewarding his indefatigable 
exertions, namely, Florida. He has, indeed, accomplished 
enough, by his zeal and researches, to secure to himself a 
lasting name throughout the botanical world: yet it is im- 
possible not deeply to regret the loss, both as concerns our 
favourite science and his friends. He had made arrange- 
ments for a grant of land in the interior of Texas, so that 
his prospects for the maintenance of his family were brighter 
than ever; and he could not have failed, by the proximity of 
his intended residence to the hitherto unexplored mountains 
of North Mexico, to render yet greater service to that sci- 
ence to which he was so ardently qt and in the pursuit 
of which, he has thus fallen a sacrifice. 
Descr. Pxutox Drummondii has a small and decidedly 
annual root. Stem a foot or more high, simple or branch- 
ed, clothed with long, patent hairs. Leaves, below oppo- 
site, and oblongo-spathulate, above alternate and oblong, 
acute and aristate, somewhat cordate at the base, sometimes 
even auriculated, and semiamplexicaul, ciliated at the mar- 
gin and slightly hairy, but chiefly so beneath : all of them 
of a pale green colour. Corymbs terminal, of several large 
very showy flowers. Pedicels short, and as well as the 
ealyx and subulate bracteas, clothed with long, patent hairs, 
some of which are tipped with glands. Calyx of five, long 
subulate segments, but united by a pellucid membrane for 
one half of their length into a tube; the limb reflexed. 
Corolla hypocrateriform, with the tube about thrice as long 
as the tube of the calyx, and very hairy, with the hairs 
patent : the Limb of five spreading, obovate, approaching to 
rhomboidal lobes, pale purple without, within, or on the 
upper side, of a brilliant rose-red or purple, varying exceed- 
ingly on different individuals in intensity, and in their more 
or less red or purple tinge : the eye generally of an exceed- 
ingly deep crimson. Stamens completely within the tube, 
but at different heights: the filaments, for almost their 
whole length, combined with the corolla. _Germen ovate : 
Style short: Stigmas three, as long as the style. Capsule 
ovato-globose, beautifully dotted, tipped with the persistent 
style, and included within the persistent calyx. 
