1872.] 
NIEREMBERGIA VEITCHII. 
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NIEREMBERGIA VEITCHII. 
E have in this South American plant, introduced some years since, from 
Tucuman by Messrs. Veitch and Sons, a charming hardy herbaceous 
perennial, of prostrate habit, with slender branching stems, eight inches 
to a foot long, the lower leaves obovate-oblong or spathulate, and 
opposite, the upper ones alternate and linear. The flowers are pale lilac, pro¬ 
duced in the axils of the upper leaves, with a funnel-bell-shaped calyx, and a 
broadly bell-shaped corolla, spreading into five wide shallow lobes, and having a 
slender white tube from a half to three-quarters of an inch long. 
