has flowered for the first time in this country, in the collec- 
tion of Dowager Lady Tankerville, at Walton upon Thames. 
We had no opportunity of describing it, and have trusted 
to the description contained in the Flora Peruviana+ 
An herbaceous hothouse plant, covered with a pu- 
bescence of longish hairs terminated by a gland. Root 
finely fibrous. Stem two feet high, slightly branched, 
round. Branches alternate, alike. Leaves alternate, shortly 
petioled, brokenly pinnated: Jeaflets sessile; larger ones 
jaggedly pinnated; Jesser lanceolate, entire. Flowers in 
panicles: pedicles \-flowered, filiform, supported at the base 
by two small lanceolate bractes. Corolla blueish violet : 
upper lip variegated, lower with purple stripes. Filaments 
stiff, upright, villous. Stigma notched. Capsule 2-celled, 
2-valved: valves bipartite. 
An undue importance seems to have been given by 
Jussieu, in the combination of orders, to the posture of the 
partition in a plurilocular seedvessel, in relation to the 
valves of the same (whether that is opposite to these 
or parallel with them), and has induced him to separate 
orders in every other respect too closely akin to admit 
of detachment: for instance, Rhododendra from Ericw and 
Pediculares from Scrophularie; and it is justly observed 
by Mr. Brown, that although the above character will 
commonly serve for the distinction of genera, it never 
can of itself be sufficient to distinguish orders; a proof 
- of which may be had in several genera of the present 
family, especially in Veronica, where almost every kind 
of dehiscence takes place among the yarious species. 
