hairy, purple, subulate bracteas. Flowers flowering from 
below upwards in succession. Calyx shorter than the 
bractea and concealed by it, cylindrical, with five angles, 
and five, nearly equal, red teeth, hairy. Corolla rather 
large, rich purple. Tube three or four times as long as the 
calyx, curved, downy, purple ; limb in five broad, emargi 
nate, almost bifid, purple segments, mouth slightly hairy 
Stamens four, inserted below the middle of the tube: Fila 
ments short: Anthers ovato-lanceolate. Pistil: Germen 
oval, glabrous. Style about halfas long as the tube of the 
corolla. Stigma somewhat capitate, with a spur at its base. — 
Fruit separating into four oblong achenia, on one of which — 
the style for a time remains, and enveloped by the persist-_ 
ent calyx, which is closed at the mouth. : 
This is a very handsome species of VERBENA, in 7 : 
respects allied to V. Bonariensis, differing in its much — 
shorter spikes, and vastly larger flowers, which are of a_ 
bright purple colour. : 
_ It isa native of the Pampas of Buenos Ayres, whence - 
seeds were sent by Dr. Guus, its discoverer, to Mr. Nett, 
and to the Botanic Gardens of Edinburgh and Glasgow, — 
where the plants have flowered readily in the greenhou 
during the summer months. From a specimen kindly com 
municated by Mr. Next our figure was made. 
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Fig. 1. Leaf from the lower part of the Plant: natural size. 2. Flower 
and Bractea, 3. Stamens. 4. Pistil. 5. Fruit enclosed in the Calyx and 
with the Bractea, 6, Fruit, separating into four achenia: magnified. 
