inches long,) axillary, opposite, pubescent. Flowers in 
flattish capitula. Bractee ovate, imbricated, pubescent. 
Calyx minute, 4-toothed, hairy. Corolla bright purplish- 
red, pubescent, paler on the outside. Tube (three lines 
long,) dilated in its middle, yellowish at its base. Limb 
spreading, scarcely half the length of the tube, four-lobed ; 
lobes blunt or emarginate, the upper one the longest, the 
two side-lobes the smallest and equal. Stamens reaching 
to about the middle of the tube. 
A plant of this exceedingly pretty species, was received 
from Berlin, at the Edinburgh Garden, last year. It 
flowered in the stove in the months of December and Jan- 
uary. The seeds had been received by M. Orro, from 
Montevideo, in 1822, having been gathered by the Prus- 
sian Botanist, M. Settow. There is, perhaps, no species 
more deserving of cultivation. Granam. 
Fig. 1. Flower and Bractea. 2. Portion of the Tube to show the Stamens. 
3. Pistil.— Magnified. 
