_ Little can at present be said of the cultivation or habits 
of this plant: it appears to be a perennial, striking freely 
from cuttings of the ripened stems, and flowering in abund- 
ance from June to September. Whether it will bear our 
winters without protection, is to be doubted; it will pro- 
bably require the covering of a frame at that season, to be 
turned into the open border during the summer. The 
scarlet of the flowers rivals that of the Lobelia splendens. 
Stems spreading, round, ascending, hairy. Leaves op- 
posite, oblong-lanceolate, coarsely serrated, tapering into 
a short petiole, hispid on each side, especially at the veins. 
Flowers arranged in a corymbose stalked spike. Bractee 
hispid, subulate, shorter than the calyx. Calyx hispid. 
Corolla longer than the calyx, bright scarlet; the sezments 
flat, oblong, emarginate, the lower larger than the others. 
J. 1. 
