neighbourhood to the Glasgow Botanic Garden, where, in 
the greenhouse, it flowers in the autumnal months, and 
continues blossoming till the gloomy days of winter hasten 
the destruction of the plant. 
Descr. The plant is annual, climbing and supporting 
itself by c’rrhz, succulent and brittle, four to five feet high. 
Stem square. Branches opposite, axillary. Leaves oppo- 
site, horizontal, petiolate, ternately compounded. Leaflets 
petiolate, reflexed, ovate, acute, serrated, slightly hairy. 
Cirrht occupying the place of a portion of the leaf, much 
branched. Spikes of Flowers terminal, but frequently hav- 
ing a branch rising from each side, erect, few-flowered, 
glanduloso-pilose. Calyx tubular, two-lipped : upper-lip 
lanceolate, lower one much larger, oblong, obscurel y three- 
toothed, each of them has a projecting arch or tooth, which, 
in the young state, quite encloses the flower-bud :—the 
colour is at first bright red, gradually becoming green. 
Corolla longer than the calyx, tubular, one-lipped : or the 
lower lip is only represented by a small tooth: the upper 
arched, compressed, dark purple, streaked, the tube green. 
Stamens four, inserted near the upper part of the tube, and 
concealed within the upper lip. Germen oblong, green, 
clothed with reflexed, red tubercles, and inserted into a 
membranous, four-lobed cup. Style shorter than the co- 
rolla. Stigma trifid. Fruit a capsule, nearly two inches 
long, ovato-lanceolate, membranous, bluntly four-angled, 
inflated, clothed with long, spreading, hooked spines of 
unequal lengths. The dissepiment is four-winged, so as to 
constitute four cells (except at the summit), and the endo- 
carp separates from the sarcocarp at the angles, thus leaving 
spaces which resemble four other cells :—the four internal 
ones only bear a few broad, winged seeds at the inner angle. 
_ Fig. 1. Flower and Bractea. 2, Corolla. 3. Corolla laid open, 4. Pis- 
til. 5. Capsule, all more or less magnified, 
