slightly branched, but rather stout stem, branches four-— 
sided. Leaves opposite and decussate, the full grown ones — 
a span or more in length, ovate, acuminate, obscurely ser-— 
rated, rounded at the base, and then suddenly attenuated 
into a broadly-winged and waved petiole, scabrous on both 
sides: the midrib sends off numerous parallel and nearly 
transverse nerves, and these again lesser ones or veinlets, — 
which anastomose with them. Panicle terminal, large: 
peduncle and pedicels four-sided, downy. Flowers hand- 
some, arranged in distichous, yet subsecund spikes on the 
ultimate ramuli. Calyx small, ovate, five-partite, the seg- 
ments nearly equal, narrow-lanceolate, straight or slightly 
incurved. Corolla an inch and a half long: the tube 
straight, pale purple, the limb deep-purple, white in the 
centre, cut into two patent lips; upper lip in two, lower 
in three, linear-oblong segments. -Anthers white, promi-_ 
nent... Style white, a little longer than the stamens, slightly © 
thickened upwards : stigma small, two-lobed. _ 4 
A folio plate were scarcely sufficient to do justice to the” 
large panicle of this beautiful plant, which Dr. Waxiich 
declares to be the loveliest of its tribe with which he is_ 
acquainted. The colour of the limb of the flowers is a 
peculiarly rich purple, but they are too much scattered on 
a single branch of the panicle to give the effect produced 
ls the entire panicle. It was discovered in the mountains 
of Pandua on theeastern boundary of India, and cultivated 
in the Calcutta Botanic Garden in 1825, whence Dr. Wat- 
Lica introduced it to the English Gare ens, through that of 
the Horticultural Society of London in 1828. Its flower- 
agg the stove of the Glasgow Botanic Garden is 
tober. . oo: eb ME, ot , ane 
Pe 4 
Fig. 1. Flower. vd Stamens and portion of ‘the Style : magnified. at 
