awn being shortly divided at its tip. The material for 
our plate has been derived from a plant raised at Kew 
from a cutting presented in 1912 by Dr. Robertson- 
Proschowsky, Nice. The plant is easy of culture and 
rapid in growth, reaching in from nine to ten months a 
height of fourteen or fifteen feet, with a freely branching 
crown. The branches end in long loose panicles of rosy- 
red flowers, some of the panicles being a couple of feet 
in length. It has at Kew been grown in a sunny position 
in a slightly heated greenhouse and liberally manured. 
The exceptional height and vigour of growth precludes 
its use save under exceptional circumstances as a green- 
house plant in the British Islands, but in countries where 
there is little or no risk from frost, as in the Mediterra- 
nean region, S. longistyla ought to form a striking and 
desirable denizen in an open-air border. The flowers are 
produced during the winter months. 
Descrietion.—//erb, up to 15 ft. in height. Stem 
4-angled, glandular-pubescent with spreading hairs. 
_ Leaves petioled, cordate-ovate, acute, serrate-dentate, 
glabrous above, pubescent on the nerves beneath, 3-53 
in. long, 2-45 in. wide; petiole 15-33 in. long, glandular- 
pubescent with spreading hairs. /tacemes often 15 in., 
occasionally up to 25 in. long, glandular-pubescent ; 
verticillasters 8-16-flowered, 1-13 in. apart; pedicels 
4-3 in. long. Caly« unequally 2-lipped, compressed, 
9-nerved, tawny-green; tube }~—} in. long; lips rather 
shorter than the tube, subulate-acuminate or aristate, 
the arista of the lower lip slightly 2-fid at the tip. 
Corolla far-exserted, red-pink, pubescent; tube 2 in. 
long, } in. across at the mouth, slightly curved, com- 
pressed ; upper lip about 4 in. long, narrow-oblong, 
straight or recurved at the emarginate tip; lower lip 
small, shortly 3-lobed, mid-lobe +!5 in. long, } in. wide, 
transversely elliptic, obtuse, incurved-erect. Stamens 
exserted nearly 4 in. beyond the top of the corolla, 
straight, red. Style much longer than the stamens, 
unequally 2-fid, with the anterior lobe very small, red. 
Fig. 1, calyx, laid open, showing ovary and style; 2, corolla, laid open, 
showing stamens and staminodes; 3, an anther; 4, ovary, surrounded by 
glands :—all enlarged, 
