nal, bracteate panicles ; rachis and its branches tomentoso- 
pubescent, sprinkled with purple spots, which are also seen 
on the back of the uppermost leaves and the lower side of — 
their petioles ; bractea ovate, acute, strongly ciliated, pu- 
bescent on both sides spotted with purple. Calyx green, 
scarcely spotted, clavate, shorter than the bractea, five-cleft, 
ubescent, segments acute, subequal, the lowest rather the 
ongest. Corolla white, tube slightly compressed, laterally 
declined ; limb scarcely so long as the tube, bilabiate, upper 
lip erect, trifid, segments blunt, pubescent on the outside, 
slightly reflexed at their apices, the central the smallest; 
lower lip simple, lanceolate, acute, glabrous, deflected. Sta- 
mens exserted, distant, deflected: filaments twice as long as 
the corolla, lilac, and covered on their outsides at the mid- 
dle with long lilac, moniliform hairs ; anthers pale yellow, 
unilocular, and bursting by a slit a little to one side of 
their vertex, forming two rather unequal valves. Style 
lilac, glabrous, bifid. Stigmas minute, terminal. Germen 
four-lobed, placed on a cylindrical disk. o 
The seeds of this plant were received at the Royal Botanic 
Garden, Edinburgh, from Mauritius in 1830; it blossomed 
in the stove for the first time in January and February, | 
1833, the blossoms coming in succession for a long time. 
Whatever it has of beauty, is derived from its long, lilac, — 
_ Ihave referred above to the Kamoun specimen in Wat-_ 
uick’s Herbarium, with which our plant is identical, because — 
more careful examination may induce Mr. Benruam to con- 
sider the specimens from other stations distinct. It is pos- 
sible that it may have been introduced to Mauritius from — 
India. Graham. a | 
I have been favoured with a drawing and specimens of 
this plant also from the Royal Gardens of Kew, where it 
was introduced in 1830, by seeds sent from Dr. WALLIicH, 
and where it blossomed in December of the same year. 
—" 
Fig. 1. Flowerand Bracteas. 2. Flower scarcely expanded. 3. 3. Anthers. 
4, Part of a Hair from a Filament: magnified. ee 
