ennial. The one before us is clearly perennial when culti- 
vated in the conservatory, and we suspect the other will 
be found so under the same circumstances. We have ex- 
amined the descriptions and figures, as well as indigenous 
and cultivated samples of A4ubletia, and confess ourselves 
unable to discover such marks as in our view would justify 
a speculative separation in the species of the two plants. 
The samples vary in height, in the deeper or shallower inci- 
sions of the leaves, in the greater or less elongation of the 
same, as well as of the petioles. Nor can we distinguish 
the Chili plant of Feuillée from either. A comparison of the 
living subjects deemed distinct, or the difference of their 
duration being established by experience, may enable others 
to form a different opinion. We are obliged to Mr. Lambert 
for the opportunity of making the drawing. 
Root fibrous spreading; stem herbaceous, 1-2 feet high 
or more, 4-cornered, hirsute, branching at the bottom, the 
branches procumbent for some distance, and often rooting 
at the joints. Leaves longly or shortly petioled, opposite, 
spreading, hirsute, ovately oblong, lobedly and laciniately 
dissected, acuminated, at most about 3 inches long, depress- 
edly nerved and veined, very shallowly decurrent along the 
sides of the channelled petiole. Spike solitary, terminal, 
numerous, scattered, imbricated, extending itself gradually, 
the lower part, by the quick fall of the corolla becoming 
_ Squarrose, upper part corymbosely fastigiate, the long-flowers 
shooting up in succession round the central unopened. ones. 
Bractes linearly lanceolate, hirsute, rather shorter than the 
calyx. Calyx glandularly hirsute, about } shorter than the 
tube of the corolla, linearly tubular, plaitedly 5-cornered, 
teeth subulate, one much smaller than the rest. Corolla 
about an inch long hypocrateriform: tube twice deeper than 
the limb, pubescent, pale, with a slightly enlarged 4 times 
shorter faux: limb obliquely rotate; one lip 3-cleft to below 
the middle, segments cuneately obcordate, divergent, the 
middle somewhat larger, the other lip about + smaller 2-cleft, 
segments collaterally convergent. Faux bearded within, and 
at the orifice. Germen oblong, 4-furrowed, 4-cornered with 
rounded corners, green: style clavately filiform, flattened 
and widened above: stigma short, biformly 2-lobed, one lobe 
pointed and upright, the other thick obtuse glandular and 
bent down. 
