for the species both to Dr. Solander and Mr. Dryander. 
Jacquin’s figure is frori a dilapidated dried sample, and is 
good for little. Vahl’s description has been most probably 
derived from the same source as that of Messrs. Solander 
and Dryander; if so, it is far from correct. The bractes 
are not cuneate, as he describes them. In fact we rely 
simply upon the Banksian Herbarium for the species. 
A branching shrub from two to three feet high, finely 
and loosely villous, of a deep green; branches green, round, 
except at the newest joints, where they are slightly 
squared, streaked. Leaves opposite, distant, elongatedly 
ovate, lanceolate, acuminate, nerved, at the lower part re— 
andly subdentate, often waved, about 3 inches long and 3 
of an inch broad, shortly narrowed at the base; petiole 
linear, several times shorter than the blade. Racemes axil- 
lary, terminal, spiked, aggregated, by threes? manyflowered, 
flowers near, shortly pedicled; bractes herbaceous linearly 
subulate roughishly villous with very short headed villi, one 
at the base of the pedicle, two above which are twice 
shorter than the calyx. Calyx of the same substance, and 
with the same pubescence as the bractes, 3 times shorter than 
the corolla, segments linear pointed connivent. Corolla 
subscariosely stiffened, of a diluted purplish crimson, an inch 
and half long, villous on the outside and shining, tubularly 
funnelform, compressed, ringent; tube cylindrical, green, 
of nearly the length of the calyx, faux gradually enlarged, 
compressed pale purple, yellow on the inside, twice the 
length of the tube, the lips of the limb about the length of 
the faux, of a deeper red and marked with yellow and green, 
equal in length, wpper one narrower, linearly oblong, con- 
volutely concave, at the back trisulcately fluted, shortly 
tapered at the top, notched-and variegated with green and 
yellow, lobules obtuse reflectent, /ower lip three times 
broader, spreading, 3-cleft, segments oblong keeled deeply 
purpled inwards with a yellow streak along the middle, out- 
wards yellowishly green, bifid at the end and reflectent, the 
middle subovately oblong, rather broader than the rest, ~ 
_ with a wider fissure.at theend. Anthers linearly lanceolate, 
green, shortly pedicled, generally with one loculament, 
sometimes with two. . 
~~ The drawing was taken in the hothouse of Messrs. Whit- 
Jey and’Co, in June last. Introduced in 1799 by Sir Joseph 
Banks.:° sas. cae : PS ee. is ‘ - ~ . anas , 
