This is, indeed, a beautiful and graceful plant, having 
flowers as brightly coloured as those of Salvia speciosa, or, what 
they still more resemble, as those of Columnea scandens. It 
only requires the protection of a greenhouse. 
Most authors have arranged the genus Cunila in the Class 
Biandria ; and Persoon, who refers it to Didynamia, de- 
scribes it as having two sterile anthers. If the present indivi- 
dual be a true Cunila, and it seems to possess all the other 
characteristics of the genus, then that mark is not constant,, 
for all its four anthers were equal in size, and loaded with pale 
yellow pollen. 
Fig. 1. Calyx. Fig. 2. Corolla. Fig. 3. Calyx, cut open, to shew the circle 
of hairs at the throat, the germens and the style. Fig. 4. Back view ; 
and. Fig. 5. Front view of an anther. Fig. 6. Back view of a le&t—AU 
more or less magnified. 
