We scarcely know any tender species of the genus more 
deserving of being cultivated than the present, for which 
we are indebted to Roserr Barciay, Esq. of Bury Hill, 
who received the seeds from Mexico. It forms a handsome 
bushy shrub, with thick shining, and rigid, coriaceous 
leaves, and beautiful purplish-blue flowers, having in the 
centre a deep orange-coloured spot, formed by the stamens. 
These blossoms too are frequent upon the plant ; but those 
which appeared when it was quite young were much larger 
than the subsequent ones. There is often an irregularity 
in the lobes of the corolla, and the calyx is constantly and 
unequally four-partite. 
Fig. 1. Back view of a Flower. 2. Calyx and Pistil. 3. Stamens.— 
Magnified. 
