This is the only really hardy species of the genus, for though the rosy-purple flowered A. floribunda from Mexico has stood for several years uninjured in the South of England, it is not to be relied upon.

The flowers are rosy-purple, and produced abundantly.

It is, however, one of our choicest subjects for ornamental planting, the handsome reniform leaves and rosy-purple flowers produced along the branches and before the leaves appear rendering it a great favourite with planters.

M. LENNEI.This is a garden hybrid between M. conspicua and M. obovata discolor, and has flowers as large as a goose's egg, of a rosy-purple colour, and produced profusely.

A good hardy species with broadly campanulate rosy-purple flowers, spotted with yellow.

This is a fine border hardy perennial, producing long racemes of rosy-purple flowers in June or July.