Pallas, under the name of CAMFANUtA liniphylle, and de- 
posited in the Banksian Herbarium, we know it to be native 
of Siberia. The figure and description in thé Flora Sibirica 
ef Gmelin have been taken from an imperfect dried plant; 
and the present are the only ones published from the living 
plant. We have not retained the specific title of liniphylla, 
as there existed already a species known by that of linifolia. 
'The name we have given refers to tbe crown on the disk of 
the germen; a feature completely anomalous in the genus, 
as far as the species are known. 
A perennial hardy herb, with a rank disagreeable smell. 
From a foot to a foot and half high; leaves of two forms; 
radical broadly cordate, acuminate, doubly or unequally 
dentate, with a petiole about equal to the blade: cauline 
scattered, sessile, substantial, not close, uprightly patent, 
linear-lanceolate, far tapered, channelled and keeled at the 
midrib, rougliish to the touch, seen through a magnify- 
ing glass shortly subpubescent, the longest three or four 
inches long, scarcely three lines broad. Stem upright, round, 
striate, simple, leafy downwards, stiff, terminated by a pa- 
niculated, somewhat pyramidal raceme of distant flowers, 
nearly a foot in length; pedicles uprightly patent, with a leaf- 
like bracte at the base, and one or two above, upper one- 
flowered, some of the lower three-flowered. Corolla cer- 
nuous, of a violet-blue colour, scentless, scarcely exceeding 
three fourths of an inch in depth, campanulate, slightly 
jnflated, oblong, vertically wrinkled, nerves five, plaited, a 
faint constriction below the limb; segments short, angularly 
acuminate, recurved, equal. Filaments dilated at the base into 
linear oblong membranes, which are connected together by 
a short white woolly fringe at the edges. Style extruded be- 
yond the corolla, violet; stigmas 3, green, revolute. Germen 
crowned at the summit by a pale yellow cartilaginous hol- 
low cylinder downy upwards on the outside, enclosed within 
the bases of the filaments, to which it is equal in length. 
The drawing was made in July last, at the nursery of 
Messrs. Whitley, Brames, and Milne, in the King's Road, 
Fulham. Of the easiest cultivation in any situation in the 
Open ground. 
a Stamen with dilated base. ò The flower stripped of the corolla and 
stamens; magnified. c Stigmas. d The crown, as seen when uncovered. 
€ Segments of the calyx. fA flower with the corolla removed. 4 The 
bases of the filaments which cover the crown, g The sti they ape 
pear before they diverge. . & The stigmas as ey ^p 
