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5. Loph.OSpermu.Hl. Like Maurandia, but with a more leafy calyx and 

 open corolla. Leaves triangular-cordate, toothed, and slightly lobcd. 



L. scandens. Corolla 2' long, purple, smooth, as also the leaves. 



L. erubescens. Corolla 3' long, rose-color, pubescent ; leaves downy. 



6. Paulownia imperialis. Tree, from Japan, with leaves like those of 

 Catalpa, but white-downy when young, appearing a little after the flowers, 

 which are panicled ; calyx and panicle rusty-downy ; corolla lilac or pale 

 violet, with a cylindrical tube and a large 5-lobed border. Seeds winged. 



7. Russellia juncea. Cult, in greenhouses, with slender bright-scarlet 

 flowers, hanging on the rush-like drooping filiform branches. 



8. Pentstemort. Besides those in the Manual, p. 286, the following are 

 commonest in the gardens, from Mexico, &c. 



P. barbatUS. Wholly glabrous, pale, 2° -4° high; leaves linear-lan- 

 ceolate; flowers in a loose elongated panicle ; corolla long and narrow, bright 

 red or scarlet; upper lip erect, lower reflexed, and sterile filament usually 

 bearded. 



P. Hartwegi. Glabrous ; leaves lanceolate, entire, the upper broader 

 at the base and clasping ; peduncles elongated, 3-flowered ; corolla 2' long, deep 

 red or red-purple, the border almost equally 5-cleft ; sterile filament naked. 



P. campanulatus. Glabrous ; leaves lanceolate, acuminate, sharply 

 serrate, the base clasping ; flowers in a raceme-like one-sided panicle ; corolla 

 ventricose above, purple or rose-colored ; sterile filament bearded. 



9. Mimulus, Monkey flower. Man. p. 2S7. From W. America are, — 



M. eardinalis. Erect, clammy-pubescent ; leaves wedgc-oblong, partly 

 clasping ; flowers large, brick-red. 



M. luteus. Erect, smooth ; leaves ovate or cordate-clasping; flowers 

 showy, yellow, often spotted with rose or brown. 



M. moscliatus, Musk-plant. Weak and diffuse, rooting, clammy- 

 villous, smelling strong of musk ; flower small, pale yellow. 



10. Digitalis purpurea, Purple Foxglove. A very showy and hardy 

 perennial, with rugose pubescent leaves, and a long raceme of large and showv 

 drooping flowers, in summer, the corolla cylindrical-campanulate, 2' long, 

 with the lobes hardly any, purple, or a white variety, spotted within. 



11. Salpiglossis sinuata. Cult, as an annual ; clammy-pubescent ; leaves 

 sinuate-toothed or pinnatifid, with a tapering base ; flowers large and showy, 

 much like those of a Petunia; corolla 1' or 2' long, funnel-form and inflated 

 above, purple, straw-color, or variegated, 4 fertile stamens. 



12. SehizanthuS pinnatUS. A handsome garden annual, from Chili, 

 with clammy-pubescent branches ; leaves alternate, once or twice pinnately 

 dissected ; corolla widely spreading, one lip small, 3-lobed, violet-colored, the 

 other paler, often blotched, much larger and !i -parted, its divisions 2-cleft, and 

 their lobes generally cleft again 



13. Calceolaria. Several species, from the Andes, are in greenhouses ; 

 but the common ones are too much crossed and varied to tell the species. 



14. Veronica, Speedwell. Man. p. 289. Besides our V. Virginica, there 

 are in the gardens, — 



V. spicata. Erect hardy perennial, 1° high ; with oblong-lanceolate 

 crenate-toothed leaves, and racemes or spikes of delicate blue flowers ; also 

 mixtures of this with two other European species. 



