the command of Captain Baudin. It was unknown in this 



eountiy until imported last year, from the nursery of 



Monsieur Cels at Paris, by Mr. Allen, nurseryman, in the 



King's Road. The parent plant is said to be six feet high, 



and much branched ; those we have seen are yet small, and 



have not divided into branches. The bloom is abundant, of 



a fine deep violet blue, rendering it a very desirable shrub 



to the greenhouse and conservatoi-y, where it flowers about 

 March. 



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An upright bmnching shrub ; siem about the thickrtess of 

 the little finger, beginning to divide into branches about the 

 middle. Leaves coriaceously stiffened, scattered, widishly 

 set, uprightly spreading, rhomboidally or ventricosely lan- 

 ceolate, I -2 inches long, 8-10 lines broad with finely netted 

 veins, blunted at each end, with a small terminal point, 

 varicosely nerved underneath and villous; petiole several 

 times shorter than the blade, round, villous, brownish. 

 Peduncles numerous, disposed on the branches in the form 

 of a raceme, axillary, solitary, loosely several- (2-4?) flow- 

 ered, upright, brown, villous, round, several times longer 

 than the petiole, shorter than the leaf: two small opposite 

 close-pressed side-bractes at the base of each flower. Flowers 

 scentless, veined, scarcely half an inch deep, somewhat 

 nodding: caltfx I shorter than the vexillum, 4-cleft to about 

 one third of its length, brownish, subsericeously villous, 

 2-lipped; upper Up the longest, very broadly cuneate or 

 turbinate with a broad rounded margin slightly notched 

 at the top, by the folding inwards of the sides bluntly 

 Keeled at the back ; loicer lip three-pronged, equal, straight, 

 sharp-pointed. Fexillum upright, spreading, smooth, ob- 

 cordately round, much larger than the alae and keel, with a 

 deep incision at the upper margin and a large double white 

 spot at the base ; unguis short : tvings spatulately oblong, en- 

 closing the keel which is smaller, about the length of the 

 white mark at the base of the vexillum ; heel obtuse, com- 

 pressed, of the same colour as the wings. Stamens mona- 

 delphous (according to Mr. Edwards sometimes diadelphous), 

 with a dorsal fissure, equal: anthers small, yellow; pollen 

 gramous. Germen pedicled, short, compressed, 2-seeded, 

 smooth, whitish ; style several times longer, smooth : stigma 

 a small pubescent head. Seeds strophiolated, having a fun- 

 gous accretion at the venti-al region. 



