298 A Report on New and Rare Plants, §c. 



S. Ckinensis; herbacea, caule verrucoso striato, foliolis * 

 lanceolatis crenato-serratis utrinque nudis, floribus foemineis 

 apetalis cyathiformibus carnosis. 



LII. Leonurus lacerus. 

 This species of Leonurus was raised in the Garden of the 

 Society from seeds sent from Nepal, by Dr. Wallich, and 

 flowered for the first time in August, 1824. It is a hardy 

 herbaceous plant, most nearly resembling L. crispus on the 

 one hand, and the plant called in gardens L. condensatus 

 on the other. Its leaves are always curled in such a way as 

 to have a considerable portion of their lower side exposed ; 

 the lower are roundish, cordate, and five-lobed, with acutely- 

 cut, irregularly-lacerated segments ; the upper gradually lose 

 their cordate form, and become, towards the top of the stem, 

 ovate, with a few acuminate divisions on each side. The 

 flowers are pale purple, woolly, and in size and form like 

 those of Leonurus Tataricus. This species may be thus dis- 

 tinguished : 



L. lacerus ; foliis complicatis inciso-serratis : laciniis acumi- 

 natis ; inferioribus rotundato-cordatis superioribus ovato-lan- 

 ceolatis rhomboideis, corollis calyce pungente longioribus. 



