from half an inch to an inch, consisting of six flowers, all turning more 
or less to one side. FLORAL LEAVES or false bracts sessile, persistent, 
bent downwards, ovate, lanceolate, pointed, entire, scarcely longer 
than the pedicels, smooth. REaL BRACTS none. PEDICELS two to 
three lines long, erect or spreading, simple, and one-flowered. FLow- 
ERS nodding, pink. Catyx tubular, about four lines long, nearly 
smooth, coloured; the upper lip ovate, pointed, rolled back on the 
edge, and the margins slightly decurrent nearly to the base of the 
calyx; the lower teeth subulate, the lateral ones half as long as the 
two lowest. Corowa an inch long, the tube more than twice the 
length of the calyx, straight at the base, swelling in the upper part 
and more or less curved upwards; the lips spreading, about equal in 
length, the upper one consisting of three blunt ovate lobes, of which 
the middle one is broader and emarginate, the lower lip ovate, blunt, 
entire, slightly concave. STAMENS and pistils of the length of the 
tube of the corolla. 
Popu.arR AND GEocrapuicaL Notice. Under the article Coleus 
barbatus, allusion has already been made to the different genera sepa- 
rated from the old Ocima; Orthosiphon is another of them, and per- 
haps one of the most natural. With the inflorescence and something 
.of the appearance of the true Ocima, it is at once distinguished by the 
lengthened tube of the corolla and the peculiar capitate stigma. 
There are many of them handsome species, and two are remarkable 
for the very great length of their stamens. They are chiefly East 
Indian, extending also to tropical Africa, and to the Indian Archi- 
pelago; and one very distinct species, though not separable from the 
genus, was gathered by Tafalla near Guayaquil in South America. 
G. B. 
INTRODUCTION; WHERE GRowN; CuLTurE. The Orthosiphon 
incurvus was first introduced, from the hills of Sylhet, to the Botanical 
Garden of Calcutta by the collectors employed by Dr. Wallich, and 
plants were sent by him in 1828, to his Grace the Duke of Northum- 
berland, by whose permission our drawing was made in the gardens 
of Sion House, Of the treatment of this plant we have no information 
excepting that it has been kept in the stove. 
Sohn aretha OF THE Names 
oO , from oipwy a tube, in fi allubion to the corolla. 
_ Incurves ented, the corollas whee fading often curling upwards in a re- 
markable mann 
sivionc tet 
OrTHOSIPHON INcuRvUS. Bentham: Labiatarum Genera et Species, p. 28. 
