PENTSTEMON M'EWANI. 
Class. 
DIDYNAMIA. 
(M'Ewan's Hybrid Pentstemon.) 
Natural Order. 
SCROPHUL ARI ACEiE. 
Order. 
ANGIOSPERMIA. 
Generic Character. — Calyx five-parted, with a dis- 
tant, solitary bract. Corolla ventricose, bilabiate. 
Stamens didynamous, with the rudiment of the fifth, 
which is usually filiform, and bearded on the upper 
side. Anthers separate, usually glabrous. Capsule 
ovate, two-celled, two-valved, many-seeded. Seeds 
angular. 
GARDEN HYBRID. 
Of this well-known and ornamental genus, every species merits the cultivator's 
attention. All are perennials, with a half-shrubby habit, and will bear the cold of 
our winters tolerably well, seldom suffering unless the frosts are very intense. 
Their cultivation is, generally speaking, very simple; they should always be 
planted in open, dry situations, in the flower garden or open borders, but never 
where there is a possibility of their being reached by the drip of trees ; for they 
never thrive amidst excessive moisture, and in this lies the entire secret of the loss 
of so many choice kinds during the winter season. 
They require a dry well drained soil ; if it is disposed to be loamy it will be no 
worse, provided it is not too strong, when it should be lightened by the addition of 
a little heath mould, or leaf mould. 
Our present subject, P. M'Eivani, is a hybrid, raised two years ago by a gen- 
tleman of the name of M'Ewan. The stock is in the possession of Messrs. Young, 
Nurserymen, of Epsom, in whose nursery it was flowering profusely last September, 
when our drawing was made. It is of a dwarf bushy habit, a very free bloomer, and 
makes a conspicuous object on the flower border. It propagates freely by cuttings, 
planted in pots of light soil placed in a little heat, or under a hand-glass in the 
open air. 
