Descr. A tall straggling and subscandent shrub, with woolly, 
obscurely four-angled branches. eaves opposite, rather long, 
petiolate, ovate, approaching to cordate, moderately acuminate, 
rather strongly dentato-serrated, penninerved and reticulated, 
nearly glabrous above, ashy and very downy, almost woolly, 
beneath. Petioles one to three inches long, woolly. Flowers 
axillary, three to five, on very short peduncles, pseudo-verticillate. 
Bracteas small, linear, shorter than the calyx. Calyz half the 
length of the tube of the corolla, funnel-shaped, five-angled, 
but the angles concealed with woolly down, five-toothed, spread- 
ing. Corolla with a yellow ground, but the upper lip and back 
of the tube and margin of the lower lip red; ¢wde much dilated 
upwards, downy ; /imb two-lipped ; wpper lip erect, nearly plain, 
ovate, bifid, ower lip large, deflexed, three-lobed, lobes ovate. 
Stamens moderately exserted. Ovary deeply four-lobed, situated 
in a fleshy gynophore. Style a little thickened upwards. Stigma 
bifid. W. J. H. zs 
Curr. A soft-wooded, tomentose shrub, a native of N epal, 
and, like many other plants of that country, sufficiently hardy 
to endure the open air of this country when planted against a 
wall, or in a sheltered situation, and protected during severe 
frosts with a mat, or some such covermg. A plant in the 
Royal Gardens, growing against a west wall, has survived the 
last two winters; the upper part of the branches has been 
destroyed, but the stout and woody part lower down is un- 
injured. It grows luxuriantly during the summer, and in autumn 
produces its flowers. It is propagated by cuttings. J. 8. 
Fig. 1. Flowers and bracts, 2. Pistil :—magnified. 
