is from two to three feet high, and bushy, several stems arising from Fad 
the same root. In favourable situations I have seen it near four feet 
tall. The stems. are | bout 3-8ths of an inch in diameter, simp) e; erect, on 
cylindrical, pubescent, and of a green colour. The leaves are large, 
oblong-oval, acuminate, somewhat panduriform towards their base, 
where they become suddenly narrowed. ‘They are mostly connate, 
until they approach the fourth pair from the top: these upper ones : 
are more attenuated at their bases, and rather amplexicaule. The 
under surface of all the leaves is covered with a soft, dense, bluish- 
white pubescence, conspicuously apparent on the middle rib and 
nerves, On their upper surface, though the pubescence cannot be 
observed readily by the naked eye, it is discernible by the glass, 
more sparse than below. The nerves are numerous, and com- 
monly scicicdl as reeponts their union w = the costa. The a 
the ‘iets isin ernns , a the florescence is past, dite are deve- 
loped to the full size of the others, or become rather broader at their 
middle, and assume a brownish purple colour. T have sometimes 
observed the whole plant of this hue, though in general it is confined — 
to the upper portion. The flowers are axillary, sessile, and ar- 
ranged in triplets round the stem, appearing whorled. The corolla 
is reddish purple above, striated below with lake, blended into white, 
and every where covered with a dense pubes cence. It is tubular, 
curved, and widest at the top, where it is divided into five auricu- 
lated segments or lobes; the laciniz being cordate and closed on 
each other. The lower end of the tube terminates in an abrupt 
