before the autumn. It flowers in August, and the flowers were 
rather fragrant than fetid. 
Descr. Our plant forms a small handsome bushy s/rué, with 
upright downy éranches, the younger ones, especially, beset with 
_ short rigid aculei, partially concealed in the tomentum. Leaves 
_ (on slender petioles, two to three inches long, channelled above), 
opposite, large in proportion to the size of the plant, five to seven 
inches long, broad, cordate, veined and reticulated, much acu- 
_ minated, downy on both sides, the margin (except at the acu- 
_ Inination) coarsely dentato-serrate.  Corymds large, terminal, 
compound, hemispherical, their dranches and pedicels downy. 
_ Flowers very numerous, compact. Calyzx-tube oval-cylindrical, 
downy ; Zimé of five erect or slightly incurved acute teeth. Co- 
_ rolla wifundibuliform, with the tube very long and slender, twice 
as long as the limb is broad, and three or four times longer than 
the calyx including the limb : corolline limb spreading horizon- 
tally, deep bright lilac, cut nearly to the base with five obovate 
lobes. Stamens four, much exserted : filaments slender, filiform, 
_ two alittle shorter than the other two: azthers dark purple, ob- 
long, versatile. Ovary globose : style slender, filiform, glabrous, 
_ longer than the corolline tube, but shorter than the filaments : 
_ stigma slightly clavate, bifid. 
Fig 1. Flower. 2. Pistil. 
