The species now figured is one of those discovered by 

 Dr. Wallich on the mountains of the north of India ; Gossain 

 Than is the district more particularly mentioned as the native 

 country of the plant, of which seeds were given by Professor 

 DeCandolle to the Horticultural Society, in whose garden it 

 flowered in November last. It is an exceedingly handsome 

 and nearly hardy perennial, growing from two to three feet 

 high in any dry situation, and requiring about the same 

 treatment as Acanthus mollis ; but it suffers from wet in 

 winter, and consequently should be planted in a strong dry 

 soil, and protected during winter by a hand-glass. It is in- 

 creased freely from seeds, and flowers from July till late in 

 the autumn. The stem is covered with soft hairs, which, 

 when bruised, emit the smell of a Geranium, 



In DeCandoUe's Prodromus the stamens of Morina per- 

 sica are described as four combined in pairs, although to all 

 appearance there is but two. This singular speculation 

 originated with Dr. Coulter, who seems to have been led to 

 adopt it by finding the anthers of Morina persica four-celled 

 instead of two-celled. But this circumstance is now known 

 to be the typical structure of all regular anthers, and I can 

 find nothing in M. longifolia to justify the theory. Indeed 

 the three missing stamens of Morina are undoubtedly repre- 

 sented by a kidney-shaped three-lobed gland at the base of 

 the corolla. 



