o-ivcn too much blue to the flowers we examined. We under- 

 stand indeed that the corolla is really of a bright carmine. 



We have not seen the plant in cultivation in this coun- 

 try : but it is evidently a soft-wooded species, to be treated in 

 the same manner as Pelargoniums. 



It differs from H. fasciculatus in its small bracts, and less 

 conspicuous flowers, which moreover are smooth, not downy ; 

 from H. tomentosus in the shortness of the lobes of the corolla, 

 the broadness of the leaves, the smoothness of the calyx, and 

 the terminal, not lateral, flowers ; from H. corymbosus in not 

 being destitute of hairs. 



