the Northern Circars, flowering in the cold season, blos- 
somed in the stove of the Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh, 
in October, 1838. The seeds were sent by my friend Mr. 
Fatconar, from Saharampoor. 
Descr. Root annual. Stem (four to eight inches high) 
erect, square, acutely angled or slightly winged, green, 
with spreading cilie on the angles; branches opposite, 
decussating, spreading widely, resembling the stem. Leaves 
petiolate, cordato-ovate, simply inciso-serrate, bright green 
and distantly hairy above, paler and glabrous below, where 
the mid-rib, and oblique little divided veins, are promi- 
nent, but channelled above. Petioles channelled above, 
ciliated, shorter than the leaves. Peduncle at first about as 
long as the petiole, afterwards elongated, exceeding the 
leaves, four-sided and ciliated, resembling the branches. 
Flowers subumbellate at the extremity of the branches, 
arising from the axils of leaves which are crowded, in effect 
resembling an involucre. Calyx bilabiate, the upper lip 
three-toothed, the lower more deeply bifid, green, ovate, — 
with fine ciliated wings, the upper wing only not being © 
produced in form of an acute angle along the peduncle, 
teeth acute. Corolla pale lilac, one-third longer than the 
calyx ; tube clavate, slightly curved downwards, glabrous ; 
limb bilabiate, spreading, the upper lip crenate, slightly 
emarginate, the lower tripartite, the lobes rounded. Sta- 
mens four, didynamous, shorter than the upper lip; fila- 
ments arched laterally; anther-lobes divaricated. Pistal 
as long as the longer stamens; sizgma bilabiate, lobes 
spreading, hairy upon their inner surface ; style compressed, 
enlarging upwards ; Germen green, ovato-conical, furrowed 
on each side, placed on a small thin light coloured disk 
which is broadest on the upper side ; ovules very numerous, 
fixed to large central placente. Capsule bivalvular, bilo- 
cular, shorter than the persisting calyx with which it is 
covered. Graham. 
Fig. 1. Pistil :—magnified. 
