well drained. It is then too, better able to repel the effects 
of our severer frosts. It flowers during the whole summer, 
and if planted in patches of considerable size, it is not pos- 
sible to conceive the splendour of its appearance without 
seeing it. 
Descr. Perennial and suffruticose : its branches strag- 
gling, procumbent and almost hispid. Leaves rough with 
hairs, opposite, oblongo-lanceolate, more or less attenuated 
at the base, somewhat wrinkled on the surface. Spike of 
flowers forming a sort of corymb when in perfection, and of 
the richest scarlet. Calyx tubular, hispid. Tube of the 
Corolla almost twice the length of the calyx, nearly white : 
its limb of five rather large, spreading, cuneate, and emar- 
ginate segments. Stamens included within the tube. 
