do not change to а brownish red, nor fall off entirely or in 
part previous to the expansion of the blossom, as they do in 
that. The corolla is here of a violet red or purple, not. of a 
pale rose colour as there. с, upon the whole, is a finer va- 
riety than 8, the common one. 
The species is distributed over a great part of Siberia, 
and has been observed to extend itself through the deserts 
of Mogol Tartary to China and Tibet. It grows very com- 
monly in the pine-forests; and in some parts in such рго- 
fusion, and-so densely, as to make whole tracts appear а 
.sheet of purple in April.and May, the period when it is in 
blossom. The leaves are sometimes used as a substitute for 
those of the Tea-tree. The new foliage is put on after the 
departure of thé bloom. 
мы А shrub, from three to six feet high; trunk, short 
knobbed thick, rounded at the root in the form of a 
tuber; bark, ash-coloured ; branches, straight upright 
round and wandlike, with gradually decrescent branchlets, 
elosely leaved at the summit, where they are downy and 
resinously dotted ; leaves, aromatic, leathery, ovally oblong, 
dark green, emarginately obtuse, thickly punctured on 
both sides, shining on the upper, paler on the other with 
furfuraceous dots, twice as broad as they are long or more, 
shortly petioled, often revolute at the sides. Flowers, at the 
ends of the last year’s branchlets, nodding, generally issu- 
ing singly from a green scaly bud; peduncle, shorter than 
the corolla, pustulous and wrinkled. Cal. a thick roundish 
obsoletely five-cornered fleshy button or knob, of the same 
golour as the peduncle, of which it looks like the summit 
dilated. Corolla subbilabiately rotate, shortly narrowed at 
the base, and externally five-cornered, half five-cleft, with 
rounded undulate segments, the upper ones forming the over- 
hanginglip; two lower nearer, smaller. Filaments unequal, 
longer ones reaching above the edge of the corolla, blood-co- 
loured, declined, bearded towards the base. .4nthers round- 
isb; black, opening by a double aperture at their summit. 
Style longer than the filaments, and of the same colour, 
smooth, filiform, thickening at the top; stigma an obtuse 
slightly dilated point, with five small indentations, of a black 
purple colour. 
22 Our variety is supposed to have been introduced twenty 
years ago from Russia, by Mr. Thomas Bell. It is perfectly 
hardy; but requires to be planted in bog-earth. The draw» 
ing was made at the nursery of Messrs. Whitley, Brame, 
and Milne, at Parson’s Green, in the beginning of March. 
