received both by Mr. W. Anderson, of the Apothecaries’ 
botanical establishment, and Messrs. Whitley and Co. 
On referring to the Banksian Herbarium, from which 
the Curnra lanceolata of the late edition of the Hortus 
Kewensis was adopted; we. are led to suspect that that plant, 
though very near, is distinct as a species from this. Its 
stem is entirely upright, much slenderer, and the pubescence 
white; a flower situated near one of the branches has a 
peduncle even longer than the calyx, all are upright, and 
the plant is upon a smaller scale throughout. But still 
the specimen is too shattered and imperfect for a safe deci- 
sion, and may have been one of feeble growth, and the di- 
rection of its stem and flowers may have been altered by 
the mode of drying the plant. Yet we are inclined to be- . 
lieve it essentially distinct. Be that as it may, the appel- 
lation of procumbens should certainly be maintained on the 
score of priority, whether the plants should prove ultimately 
of one species or not. : 
~The present is an annual. First raised in Europe by Pro- 
fessor Cayanilles, in the garden of the Buen Retiro at 
Madrid. In part procumbent, in part ascendent; stem 
herbaceous viscidly and roughly pubescent, with purple 
airs, a foot or more long, branched; branches axillary, 
~Jow down, alternate, simple, bluntly 4-cornered. Leaves 
opposite, patent, ovately lanceolate, slightly pubescent with 
white hairs, nerved, rachis or midrib varicose beneath, from 
an inch and a half to near three inches long, diminishing 
as they advance towards the summit of the stem to mere 
bractes: petiole short, hirsute. Flowers numerous, loose, 
terminating stem and branches in leafy racemes, alternate, 
solitary, interfoliaceous or lateral between each pair of 
leaves, nutant, irregular, about an inch across the corolla: 
peduncles longer than the petioles, two or three times shorter 
than the calyx. Calyx purplish, tubular, with 12 raised 
streaks and a pubescence the same as that of the stem, 
ventricose beneath, upper side of the base projecting like a 
short obtuse spur, faux widened, orifice slightly bilabiate, 
patent, upper lip largest bearing 2 petals, lower smaller 
bearing 4 petals; lobules or teeth 6, callous, thickened, 
pointed by a terminal bristle. Petals inserted within the 
rim of the orifice of the calyx, and alternating with the 
teeth, rose-purple, bilabiately rotate, with open intervals, 
