nectiva are not produced below the point of insertion, but 

 merely articulated on the filament. It also bears some 

 affinity to Meriandra ; and has very much the habit, and 

 some of the characters, of Origanum. It certainly, how- 

 ever, constitutes a distinct genus, intermediate between 

 those three; and as the genus 1 had, in my notes on Labiatae 

 in a former Number of the Register, dedicated to my friend 

 M. Audibert, of Tarascon, proves, on a closer examination, 

 not to be distinguishable from Pulegium, a section of 

 Mentha, I am happy in having this opportunity of retain- 

 ing the name of that distinguished promoter of Botanical 

 and Horticultural science for so interesting a plant as the 

 present one." 



For the foregoing account of this curious plant we are 

 indebted to Mr. Bentham. We have little to add, except 

 that it is quite hardy, grows readily in common Garden 

 soil, flowers from July to September; but is not propagated 

 readily by cuttings. It has not yet produced seeds. 



Mr. Douglas found it on the plains of the Colombia, 

 near the Priest's Rapid, and on the clayey hills near the 

 Big Birch, in 1826. 



It forms an inelegant plant, about a foot and a half 



J. L. 



high 



