Uroskinnera
(named after G. Ure Skinner, a merchant and collector of Central American plants). ORD. Scrophularineae. A genus consisting of a couple of species of softly villous, stove herbs, natives of Central America and Mexico. Flowers rosy-violet, rather large, declinate, shortly pedicellate, with two bristly bracts at base; calyx tubular-campanulate, with four or five short, bristly teeth; corolla tube elongated, enlarged above, the limb of five scarcely unequal, spreading lobes; stamens four, included; style elongated, very shortly bifid; spike or raceme terminal, dense, secund. Leaves opposite, petiolate, soft, crenate. S. spectabilis, the only species introduced, thrives in sandy loam. It may be increased by cuttings, inserted in sand, under a bell glass, in heat.
U. spectabilis (showy). fl. in sessile, terminal, very close spikes about 3in. long; calyx small, hairy, four-toothed; corolla smooth, 1 1/2in. long, funnel-shaped. July. l. oblong, toothed, 2in. to 4in. long. h. 1ft. to 1 1/2ft. Mexico, 1856. Plant grey with close hairs. (B. M. 5009; F. d. S. 1433.)