at Mr. Dickson’s farm, about five miles from Rio Janeiro, 
and afterwards in abundance at Tejuca. 
In cultivation it forms an elegant, deciduous, herbaceous 
plant, flowering very freely for about two months, and after- 
wards dying down to the root. It requires the heat of the 
stove, and is propagated with great difficulty by its leaves. 
It was named, in a paper read before the Horticultural 
Society in October 1826, and subsequently published in 
the Transactions of that body, in honour of “ its indefati- 
gable and intelligent discoverer,” to whose single efforts 
in examining the rich vegetation of the countries lying 
in the vicinity of the river Columbia, amidst difficulties and 
dangers that would have appalled a less ardent mind, our 
gardens are indebted for an immense store of new and 
beautiful plants. 
The following is the description of this species in the 
work above referred to. 
From a fleshy, roundish root rise two or three purple, 
downy stems, which are naked, and incrassated at the base, 
and crowned about six inches from the ground with a 
whorl of five, six, or seven stalked, spreading, ovate, ser- 
rate-crenate, ciliated leaves, which are downy, with a fine 
gloss on each side. From the centre of these leaves is 
produced a purple, downy peduncle, rather longer than 
the stem, bearing a large, umbellate, many-flowered cyme. 
At the base of each ray of this cyme is a subulate bractea. 
Pedicels round, long, slender, smooth, and shining. Calyx 
inferior, with a five-parted limb, and ovate, nearly equal, 
short segments. Corolla tubular, half an inch long, fleshy 
and gibbous at the base, rather downy, of a pale pink 
colour, striped and bordered with numerous blood-red 
interrupted or continuous spots; its limb is crisp and 
nearly erect, the upper lip two-lobed, with rounded, imbri- 
cated lobes; the lower three-lobed, with equal, ovate, 
obtuse segments, about the same size as the upper; the 
recesses of the divisions of the limb are gibbous externally. 
Filaments smooth; anthers cordate, cohering, smooth. 
Glands at the base of the ovarium, two, large, ovate, yellow, 
on each side of the upper division of the calyx. Ovarium 
almost wholly superior, downy. Séy/e continuous with 
the ovarium. Stigma capitate, minutely papillose, per- 
forated in the middle. 
