platanifolia and Batatas, or not, though from analogy we 
suspect it to be so. 
Branches, petioles, peduncles, and calyx roughly furred 
with a bristly spreading purple pubescence, each hair of 
which stands on a small glandular base or tubercle; branches 
and peduncles round: peduncles upright longer than the pe- 
tioles, robust, from two- to eight- flowered in the present 
plant, generally trichotomously divided; pedicles continuous — 
with the calyx and subclavately thickened. Calyx oblong’; 
leaflets oblong, nearly equal, rather pointed. Corolla purplish 
red: tube cylindrical, not ventricose, many times longer 
than the calyx: limb about two inches and a half over; 
segments shallow, notched in the middle of the intervals 
between the plaits; plaits shortly pointed. Leaves about 
3 or 4 inches long, naked, cordately 3-lobed, lobes dentately 
sinuated at the outer edge, angularly tapered: petiole seve- 
ral times shorter than the nerved blade, 
Flowers in August. We have not been informed of the 
height the plant attained at Spofforth. 
