M. altissima. Reich. Ic. Bot. v. 2. t. 170. (floribus roseis 
purpureo-maculatis. ) ; 
M. affinis. Reich. Ic. Bot. v. 2. t. 182. (floribus purpureis 
maculatis. ) 
M. media. Willd. Enum. Sw. Br. Fl. Gard. v.1. t. 98. 
M. oblongata et M. rugosa. Ait. Hort. Kew. ed. 2. v. 1. 
p. bi. 
8. mollis ; foliis molliter pubescentibus, corolla labio supe- 
riore densius barbato. Bent. 1. c. 
M. mollis. Linn. Amen. Acad. v. 3. p. 399. Reich. Ic. 
Bot. v. 2. t. V1. 
M. menthefolia. Graham in Edin. N. Phil. Journ, 1829. 
et in Bot. Mag. t. 2958. 
The above is a list of ten, out of twenty-one different names which 
have been ascertained by Mr. Benruam to have been given to this 
species of Monarpa. The same able author refers the M. fistulosa 
var. of Curr. in Bot. Mag. t. 146, (but with a mark of doubt,) to M. 
didyma, L. (Bot. Mag. t. 546,) from which our plant is at all times dis- 
tinguished by its taller stems, by the calyces and bracteas being less 
coloured, the corollas smaller and more or less pubescent, and especially, 
by the mouth of the calyx being set and often closed with hairs. Mr. 
Bentuam reduces the Genus Monarpa to the two species now men- 
tioned, M. Bradburiana, Berx., M. Russelliana (Bot. Mag. t. 2513), 
M. punctata, and M. aristata.—M. ciliata, Linn. together with M. hir- 
suta, Pursn, (M. ecliata, Micu.) now constituting the Genus BLEPHILIA. 
All are natives of North America: M. fistulosa having a geographical 
range of great extent, from Canada to the Gulph of Mexico: the variety 
mollis, as observed by Mr. Bentuam, being found chiefly in the north- 
ern, the 2. chiefly in the southern regions. 
The plant here figured, with pale rose-coloured flowers spotted with 
deep purple within, and to which we shall confine our description, was 
sent from New Orleans, by Mr. Drummonp, to the Glasgow Botanical 
Garden, and flowered in the open air in the summer of 1833, 
Dxscr. Stem between two and three feet high, four-sided, slightly 
downy, generally hollow. Leaves opposite, upon short foot-stalks, ovate 
acuminate, often deflexed, very obscurely downy, coarsely and remotely 
serrated, slightly waved, the upper pair oblong-lanceolate. Bracteas 
few, ovate, foliaceous, entire, the apex reflexed. Head of flowers rather 
large. Calyces very densely crowded, linear-oblong, curved, striated 
purplish; the imdb of five sharp subulated teeth, the mouth closed with 
connivent white hairs, asin Tuymus. Corolla about an inch long, ar- 
cuate, pale rose-coloured, downy without. Upper lip linear, entire, hai 
towards the extremity; lower one three-lobed, middle lobe elongated ; 
__ the whole upper side spotted with deep purple. Anthers purple. 
a Fig. 1. Flower. 2. Calyx. 3. Stamens: } | 
: owe | y ens :—magnified. 4, Bractea, nat. 
