An herbaceous branching species, in the specimen we 
saw, about two feet high. . Stem and branches square- 
cornered, the corners, with a narrow green edge, formed by 
the rim of the wings of the decurrent petioles, intervals 
shorter than the leaves. Leaves distantly decussated, about 
2 inches long, oblong-ovate, acuminate: petioles winged, 
halfstemclasping, three times shorter than the blade, or 
more. Panicles leafy, decussated ; peduncles oppositely ax- 
illary, square-cornered threeflowered, rather longer than 
the leaves, the two outer sometimes subdivided : bractes 2, 
linear tapered, close pressed, opposite, placed at the fork 
of the trichotomy; other two smaller, nearly opposite, 
decurrent and sometimes flowerbearing, situated about 
the middle of each of the outer pedicles, one adhering a 
little higher up than the other. Calyx herbaceous, about 
_a quarter of an inch deep, with subulate upright segments. 
Corolla hypocrateriform, rose-coloured, deciduous; tube 
straightish, purple, dinted in front a little above the base, 
on the opposite side protuberant, marked on the inside with 
five unequal vertical pointed rays, 4 of which are parallel 
with the stamens; faux pubescent; limb horizontal flatly 
expanded 5-parted, with a deep purple star close to the ori- 
fice of the tube, segments ovate obtuse equal. Filaments 
deeply inclosed in the tube, very short: anthers twin, ovately 
roundish; pollen cream-coloured. Pistil wholly green, 
shorter than the stamens: stigma convex, elliptical, slanted, 
obsoletely and transversely bifid. Berry globular, black, 
about the size of a large pea; seeds many, small. 
The drawing was taken at the nursery of Messrs. Whit- 
ley, Brames, and Milne, King’s Road, Parson’s Green. 
Easily propagated by seed, which it produces freely. 
——=ta————— 
a Calyx. Corolla dissected vertically. ¢ Pistil. 
