our winters, but requiring nothing more than the protec- 

 tion of a 

 beautiful. 



tion of a frame in winter. It is more interesting than 



The petals of the Garden plant are darker-coloured 

 than they are described by its original discoverer, who 

 calls them dilute coccinea. 



Stems numerous, erect, taper, rough to the touch, a foot 

 and a half high. Leaves opposite, ovate-lanceolate, quite 

 entire, tapering to both ends, scabrous. Racemes short, 

 few-flowered, from between the petioles, erect. Calyx vil- 

 lous, green, gibbous at the base, oblique at the apex, and 

 purple, 6-toothed, and inflated. Two petals oblong, deep 

 purple, wavy, unguiculate ; four others very small, some- 

 times wanting. Stamens often 11, sometimes 12, with 

 hairy filaments, the longest of which are exserted. 



J. L. 



