its several flowering branches, its real merits cannot be es- 
timated: Our plants in the Glasgow Botanic Garden were 
derived from Mr. Loppiges, who received them from Chili: 
and published them as a species under the name of M. va- 
riegatus ; but after a most careful examination and com- 
parison, I am forced to the conclusion that it is not specifi- 
cally distinct from M. luteus, which is probably a very 
variable plant. Our native specimens have the segments 
of the flower sometimes spotless, sometimes with a single 
spot confined to the lower segment, at others apparently, 
as in the present case, having each segment stained with a 
large purple spot. 
Descr. Root perennial. Stem herbaceous, branched 
from the base, erect, or with the side branches more or less 
decumbent, rounded, purple upwards. Leaves broadly 
ovate, sometimes nearly orbicular or approaching to rhom- 
boidal, coarsely toothed with about five nearly parallel 
nerves, the margin often reddish ; the lowermost tapering 
into a long footstalk, the uppermost sessile. Peduncles 
axillary, solitary, opposite, purple. Flower large, hand- 
some. Calyx tinged with purple. Corolla pale lemon- . 
colour, the palate of two, deep yellow, hairy prominences, 
the segments of the limb each with a large purple blotch, 
the throat dotted with purple. 
Fig. 1. Calyx and Pistil. 2. Pistil :—magnified. 
