Holmskioldia
(named after Theodor Holmskiold, 1732-1794, a Danish botanist). SYN. Hastingia. ORD. Verbenaceae. This genus comprises three species of glabrous or hoary pubescent shrubs. Flowers in shortly-stalked, axillary cymes, or crowded at the tips of the shoots. Leaves opposite, entire or dentate. H. sanguinea, the only species yet introduced, is a stove evergreen shrub. It thrives in any light, rich soil. Cuttings root readily in sandy soil, under glass, in heat.
H. sanguinea (blood-coloured). fl. scarlet, racemose, composed of a few two to four-flowered whorls; calyx large, sub-rotately campanulate; corolla with an elongated incurved tube. l. petiolate, ovate, acuminated, hardly toothed. h. 4ft. India, 1796. (B. R. 692.)