stout but woolly or cobwebby stem, leafy at the top, something 
after the manner of the Daphne Laureola. Leaves soft, four to 
six inches long, patent or deflexed, lanceolate or broad-lanceolate, . 
acute, serrated, tapering at the base into a short footstalk, dark 
green and slightly downy above, tomentose and hoary beneath. 
Peduncles axillary, solitary, one to two inches long, woolly. 
Calyx woolly: tube semiglobose, five-angled; the /imé of five 
acuminated spreading segments. Corolla yellowish or greenish- 
red, at length quite red: tude two inches long, nearly straight, 
laterally compressed; dims two-lipped, Zips long, superior one 
inclined upwards, bifid, segments linear acuminate; /ower lip 
deflexed, trifid, segment linear-lanceolate. Anthers shorter than 
the upper lip, all hairy at the apex. Stigma two-lipped. W. J. H. © 
Cuur. This is a soft-wooded, suffruticose shrub, of an erect, 
stiff habit, becoming naked below. It requires to be placed 
during winter in a temperature that, on an average, need not 
exceed 55°; and, on account of its soft, tomentose nature, the 
hygrometric state of the atmosphere should be kept rather dry. 
In spring it should be repotted, first divesting the ball of a 
portion of its old soil, and then planting in a fresh mixture of 
light loam and sandy peat. Care must be taken that the pot be 
well drained, and that at no time the mould be allowed to re- 
main long saturated ; for in plants of this nature, if kept too 
wet, the woody parts of the roots near the surface are liable to be 
destroyed, while the appearance of the plant, above ground, 
continues for a time in a healthy state. During the summer it 
may be placed in the greenhouse. We have not yet had sufli- 
cient experience respecting it, yet we believe that it would grow 
vigorously if planted about May in a warm border ; but as it is 
a late flowering plant it would be necessary to take it up and 
repot it, and place it under protection in time to save it from 
being injured by the autumn frosts. It is readily increased by 
cuttings, put under a bell-glass and treated in the usual way. JS. 
