* 
under the name here adopted. It has been freely propa- 
gated by cuttings, and flowered abundantly in June and 
July, 1839, in stove heat. We have no account of the 
country from whence it was introduced into Europe. 
(To me this species does not appear to differ from Last- 
anpRA Maximiliana, Marr. Nov. Gen. Brasil. p. 94. t. 240 
and 241, a native of the provinces of Saint Paulo and Saint 
Sebastian, Brazil. W.J. H.) 
Descr. Shrub (five feet high) erect, bluntly tetragonous. 
Branches compressed, long, weak, pendulous, when young 
densely covered with spreading nearly white hairs, which 
soon become fulvous. Leaves (two and a half to three 
inches long, an inch and a half to two inches broad,) oppo- 
site, ovato-oblong, blunt, or subcordate at the base, petio- 
late, entire, divaricated, densely pubescent on both sides, 
on the upper and on the back of the nerves and partly on 
the secondary veins, the pubescence is long and suberect, 
on the lower side between the nerves closely covered with 
short tomentum. Peduncles axillary, once or often divid- 
ed, they and each of their subdivisions spreading at right 
angles, collected at the extremities of the branches into 
large panicles. Bracteas caducous, solitary at the subdivi- 
sions of the peduncles, and in pairs, opposite, at the base of 
the calyx. Flowers (an inch and a half across) lilac, nume- 
rous, handsome, Calyx covered with harsh, unequal hairs, 
which on the oblong tube are deflected and ascending at the 
apex, on the back of the limb nearly straight ; limb deeply 
five-cleft, segments lanceolate, unequal, oblique, ciliated, 
glabrous on the inner surface, half as long as the tube. 
Petals five, obovato-cuneate, emarginate, ciliated, glabrous 
on both surfaces. Stamens ten, inserted into the throat of 
the calyx ; Jilaments declined, having a few glandular hairs, 
sprinkled chiefly in a line along their outer side ; anthers 
armed, ascending, cells approximated along the upper side, 
compressed laterally, undulate, opening by a single pore at 
the apex ; connective biauriculate at the base. Pistil as 
long as the stamens, and declined in the opposite direction 
from them ; stigma small, entire, blunt, greenish; style 
purple, slightly tapering towards the stigma, having a few 
glandular hairs towards its base, articulated with the ger- 
men; germen green, oblong, with ten prominent angles, 
free or partially adhering to the calyx-tube at the angles, 
crowned by a tuft of erect hairs, five-locular ; placent@ cen- 
tral, covered with many ovules. Graham. 
Fig. 1. Single Stamen. 2. Calyx including the Pistil :—magnified. 
