Plate 534. 

 TORENIA AURICUL^vFOLIA. 



The wide difference that exists between species of the same 

 genera cannot be better exemplified than in the case of the 

 plant now figured, which bears but little appearance of belonging 

 to the same genus as Torenia Asiatica, while its pretty blue 

 flowers remind us much of a Lobelia It is perfectly distinct 

 from any of the genus hitherto introduced, its leaves and general 

 habit reminding one at first sight of a dwarf Auricula more 

 than a Torenia. The flowers, which are solitary or terminal, 

 are produced freely, on axillary peduncles from two to three 

 inches high, and are not at all unlike Lobelia Paxtonii, but they 

 are much larger, and the lobes are blotched with the richest 

 blue, veined and margined with white. 



As it has only flowered for the first time this season, and the 

 plants are very small, the flowering capabilities of the plants 

 are as yet unknown, but at present the blooms seem to be 

 produced in pairs, and in the case of a strong plant with a 

 dozen or more of crowns, it would present a very attractive 

 appearance. 



We are indebted to the Messrs. RoUisson, of Tooting, for the 

 opportunity of figuring this little gem, and have only to add 

 that it obtained a first-class certificate from the Eoyal Horti- 

 cultural Society, when exhibited on April 5th of the present 

 year. 



