dven in the dried state, though not noticed by Nees, the leaves 
of this plant exhibit the pretty variegated character, which alone 
would recommend it to the cultivator, of milk-white stains upon 
a dark green ground. Here the variegated portion follows the 
lines of the midrib and lateral veins. The flowers, though small, 
are pretty. The calyx is reddish ; the corolla white, tipped with 
green and yellow. It flowers readily with us during the winter 
months. Our earliest knowledge of this plant was through Mrs. 
General Walker. 
Duscr. Root slender, creeping and throwing out fibres. Stem 
very short, downy, bearing four to six pairs of opposite /eaves, 
which spread horizontally and are oval or obovate, obtuse, ob- 
scurely serrated, tapering into a rather long winged fvotstalh, dark 
green above, glabrous, penninerved ; following the course of the 
midrib and primary lateral nerves is a broad whitish line, giving 
a prettily varied character to the leaf; beneath pale-coloured and 
downy. ‘The apex of the short stem terminates in one to four, 
erect, unbranched (or branched only at the base), scapiform pe- 
duncles, together with the raceme from six inches to a foot long, 
terete, downy. Flowers in pseudo-verticils, on very short pubes- 
centi-glandulose pedicels, bracteated at their base. Calyz of five, 
lanceolato-subulate, appressed, glandular, red, pubescent sepa/s. 
Corolla white, tipped with green and yellow. whe elongated, 
glandularly pubescent, nearly cylindrical, bent down suddenly or 
geniculated below the middle, and dilated upwards. Limé un- 
equally two-lipped ; upper lip small, erect, two-lobed ; lower lip 
more than twice as large, three-lobed; all the lobes ovate, 
acute. Anthers a little protruded beyond the mouth, acute, 
ovate. Ovary oblong, seated on a large fleshy disc, glandular. 
Style as long as the stamens. Stigma slightly bifid. 
Fig. 1. Flower. 2. Pistil :—magnified. 
