the Nilgiri Hills in the Indian Peninsula, at elevations up to 
7000 ft., southwards to Ceylon, and is represented in the 
Eastern Himalaya by a distinct variety. Even in its 
southern area, however, the variability in stature, in the 
hairiness and texture of the leaves, and in the size of the 
flowers is such that Sir Joseph Hooker recognises there 
three other varieties, all of which have at times been treated 
as distinct species. The form here depicted, which appears 
to be typical S. violacea, as cultivated at Kew, forms a fairly 
compact plant about a foot and a half in height, which 
flowers freely in a warm house about midsummer. As a 
pot plant it is most satisfactory when raised from cuttings 
every year, and when grown under the conditions suitable 
io well-known S. javanensis, Jungh., and S, Ventenatii, 
ook, 
Descriprion.— Verb, perennial, branching from the base. 
Stems slender, erect, 14-2 ft. high, puberulous, sparingly 
branching, the internodes 14-13 in. long. Leaves ovate, 
14-3 in. long, 14-2 in. wide, subacute or shortly acuminate, 
base cordate or rounded, rather coarsely crenate or at times 
serrately toothed, almost glabrous above, puberulous beneath, 
more especially along the main-nerves, thin ; petiole slender, 
14-24 in. long, shortly pubescent. Aacemes terminal, 
slender, 35-6 in. long, many-flowered, often secund, the 
rachis and pedicels shortly glandular-pubescent; bracts 
elliptic, obtuse, hardly as long as the pedicels. lowers 
solitary, opposite, the pairs about 5 lin, apart; pedicels 
1-14 lin. long. Calyx about 14 in. long, much enlarged 
after flowering, glandular-pubescent, lips very short and 
broad, the upper with a broad dorsal scale 3-1 lin. long; 
deeply concave behind. Corolla about 3 in. long, violet 
with white blotches on the lower lip; tube rather slender, 
much curved below, gradually widening to the throat; 
upper lip about 2} lin. long, 3-lobed, the central lobe 
argest, earginate; lower lip suborbicular, nearly entire or 
obscurely lobed, 3-4 lin. across. Stamens hidden under the 
hooded upper Jip ; anther-cells shortly ciliate on the sides. 
Disk distinctly gibbous in front, sparingly beset above with 
sessile glands, Nutlets obovoid, minutely tubercled. 
Fig. 1, flower; 2, corolla-tube laid open, showing staminal insertion ; 
3, antler ; 4, style; 5, ovary and disk :—all eat “ 
