Tas. 4789. 
| SCUTELLARIA vittosa. 
Shaggy Skull-cap. 
Nat. Ord. Laprat#.—DiIpyNAMIA GYMNOSPERMIA. 
Gen. Char. (Vide Supra, Tas. 4268.) 
ScurELLARtA villosa; caule acute tetragono ramoso, foliis petiolatis cordato- 
ovatis mollibus acuminatis grosse sinuato-dentatis rugosis pilis tenuissimis 
albis patentibus villosis subtus purpureis, racemis terminalibus multifloris 
brevibus corymbosis, bracteis parvis herbaceis, floribus glanduloso-villosis, 
corolla (coccinese) tubo elongato gracili infundibuliformi lobis abbreviatis. 
of the Andes of Peru, whence rooted plants were sent 
1842, by Mr. Nation. The plant proves to be a new 
species, allied indeed to S. cordifolia, Benth. (see our Tab. 
4290), having similarly large scarlet flowers, and more or less 
cordate leaves, but essentially different in the more compact 
habit, short corymbose racemes, discoloured, softer, very coarsely. 
sinuato-serrated leaves, and above all in the copious long 
spreading slender white hairs of the foliage, and in the glandu- 
lar hairs of the flowers, which are particularly long on the calyx. 
With us it flowers in the stove in the early spring months, and 
is assuredly a great acquisition to our collections. 
Duscr. Stem erect, scarcely a foot high in our plants, spa- 
tingly branched, tetragonous, purplish-green, hairy with rather 
short spreading hairs : dranches short, opposite. Leaves spread- 
ing, opposite, petiolate, cordato-ovate, acuminate (with a narrow 
joint), soft in texture, wrinkled with the sunken reticulated veins, 
green above, purple beneath, the margin deeply sinuato-den- 
tate; above, beneath, and at the margin quite villous, with soft, 
very slender spreading hairs. Petioles about an inch long, 
hairy. Raceme terminal, short, almost sessile, corymbose, many- 
flowered. Flowers scattered on the rachis, externally wholly 
clothed with spreading hairs, which are especially long on the 
calyx, and all are tipped with a minute globose gland. Bracteas 
JUNE lst, 1854. 
