tober. The leaves are of moderate size, ovate, hairy. Several 
flowers grow from the axils of each leaf, the pedicels becoming 
once or twice branched, and flowering in succession. The seg¬ 
ments of the calyx are ovate, of a leafy character, with their 
edges recurved. The corolla-tube is upwards of an inch long, 
ventricose, crimson, shaggy with red jointed hairs; the limb 
about an inch broad, two-lipped, five-lobed, the lobes rounded, 
rosy-lake, marked with numerous dots of deep crimson-purple 
in longitudinal lines, sprinkled with short hyaline hairs. Sta¬ 
mens four, coherent by their anthers, the filaments twisted; 
style glandular-pubescent, with a bifid stigma. 
This new variety will prove to be a very ornamental plant, 
the flowers being particularly pleasing from their delicate rosy 
colour, and the contrast afforded by the crimson of the tube; 
they are also produced very abundantly, the branching pedicels 
yielding a succession of flowers, and the plants commencing to 
flower in a dwarf state. 
The crimson-flowered variety named insignis is also a very 
handsome plant, quite distinct from, and perhaps more beautiful 
than formosa. The flowers are larger, the limb of the corolla 
being an inch and a half broad; the tube is clothed with trans¬ 
parent colourless hairs, and is light-red, paler beneath, while 
the limb is of a bright light-crimson, and dotted with roundish- 
oblong spots of a very deep crimson, which are ranged in lon¬ 
gitudinal lines, and become nearly confluent. The inside of the 
tube is yellow. 
Like other kindred plants, these should be grown in a close 
moist stove-pit, in a light compost of peat, leaf-mould, and 
sand, and under these circumstances require no especial care. 
The stems of many of the Tydseas naturally go on flowering and 
elongating, in consequence of which, after blooming for awhile, 
they become tall, and appear unsightly below. The remedy 
consists in removing the top, and planting it as a cutting in a 
brisk, close, moist heat, where it soon forms a new plant, while 
the old stem, thus cut back, will, under favourable circum¬ 
stances, produce new flowering shoots from the base. 
