Kamaon (where Messrs. Strachey and Winterbottom also found 
it), Saharungur and Sermoie; from Simla, Lady Dalhousie (com- 
municated also by the late Mr. Fielding); from Affghanistan, 
Griffith, n. 613, and from Chibil Tun and Zahree, Scinde, by 
Dr. Stocks (n. 867). 
Descr. A shrub, twelve to fourteen feet high. Branches 
opposite, obtusely tetragonal, the younger ones densely covered 
with tawny or ferruginous down. Leaves on woolly petioles 
one-quarter of an inch to one inch long, ovate or oblong, the 
lower ones cordate at the base, upper ones cuneate, thick, to- 
mentose, densely so beneath, with ferruginous or cinereous to- 
mentum, the margins toothed and crisped, rarely entire, except 
in the upper leaves. Mowers arranged in capitula, or in dense 
whorls, constituting spikes or racemes, and these, from the many 
short flowering-branches, forming panicles. The lower portions 
of the spikes have leaf-like bracteas, the upper are bractless. 
Calyz oval, downy, nearly half the length of the tube of the co- 
rolla, four-toothed; teeth erect, obtuse. Corolla salver-shaped, 
lilac, with a white eye; éwbe cylindrical, downy ; Zimé in breadth 
nearly equal to the length of the tube, spreading horizontally, 
deeply four-lobed, lobes broadly obcordate, waved and crenulated, 
_ the mouth or faua contracted, orange-coloured. Stamens four, 
inserted below the middle, and quite included ; filaments short ; 
anthers short, oblong. Pistil quite included. Ovary ovate, 
downy, except at the very base. Style very short. Stigma 
clubbed, bifid. ? 
Fig. 1. Flower. 2. Corolla laid open. 3. Pistil :—magnified. 
