Cultivated by Miller in 1768; but we had never met 
with the plant before last summer, when it flowered in the 
hothouse of Mr. Lee of the Hammersmith nursery, having 
been raised from seed from Jamaica. 
The genus has been entirely recast in the Prodromus of 
Mr. Brown; and defined as follows: Calyx 5-parted (some- 
times deeply 5-cleft), equal. Corolla funnelform, with a 
d-cleft spreading slightly unequal limb. Stamens 4, all 
antherbearing, inclosed; anthers with parallel unappendi- 
_ cated cells. Cells of the germen manyseeded. Capsule 
roundish, subsessile, with the partition grown to the 
valves. Seeds subtended by brackets (bracketted). The 
group thus circumscribed consists of herbaceous caulescent 
opposite-leaved frequently furred plants: with either axil- 
lary or terminal flowers. 
The species with two-seeded cells, in the genus, are 
thus exeluded, and distributed into other groups. 
Stem 2-3 feet high, branching, frequently lying along 
the ground, 4-cornered, smooth, furred at the upper part; 
the branches consist chiefly of the divisions which constitute 
the panicle. Leaves petioled, ovately lanceolate, subserrate 
nerved, either slightly hirsute or else roughened; stem-ones 
the longest; those of the branches frequently falling off 
' while in flower: petioles short. Branches of the panicle 
opposite dichotomous divaricate; pedicles one-flowered, 
flowers largish, either blue or purple. Segments of the 
calyx long, linear, upright, hirsute, the pubescence glan- 
dular. Tube of the corolla twice the length of the 
calyx, wide above, gibbous behind, and flat before; seg- 
ments of the limb nearly equal; two hinder ones scarcely 
shorter than the rest, three front ones more spreading ; all 
nearly round concave and lapping at the sides: faux com- 
pressed and paler. Filaments from the base of the tube, 
two shorter by half than the rest (this seems a mistake, as 
there is scarcely any inequality mentioned by others) near- 
ing by pairs: anthers upright, white, bivalved. Germen 
oblong, taper-pointed: style the length of the tube filiform: 
stigma bifid, with one lobe longer than the other. Capsule 
taper-pointed, enclosed by the calyx, bilocular, bursting 
elastically upon the claw: seeds nearly round, compressed 
black. ‘The whole plant said to be slightly viscid, with a © 
smell that approaches in some degree to that of Camphor. 
We had no opportunity of describing the plant our- 
selves. Bgl 
