Barbary, except offidnalisy which is common to our own 

 country as well as many other parts of Europe. 



OrientaUs is found wild in Turkey; was received by 

 Miller from the Botanic Garden at Paris, and cultivated ai 

 Chelsea in 1752. Flowering here in the open ground a» 

 early as March, the blossom is very liable to be defaced by 

 the cold winds of that month, and is not often seen in perfec- 

 tion with us. Miller recommends the planting of it in old 

 rubbish or on walls, where it grows less rankly, and is of 

 course not so subject to be injured by the effects of early 

 frosts, which sometimes destroy it in other situations . 



Rootstoch perennial, fleshy, 4 or 5 inches long, rather 

 •mailer than the finger, blackish without, white within. 

 Root-leaves petioled, large, cordate, acuminated, undulated^ 

 reticulately veaned, of a dingy green, thinnishly hispid on 

 both sides, from 3 to 5 inches broad, sometimes nearly 6 



long : petioles channelled, nearly of the same length as the 

 Mades, thickly and subreversedly hispid, sheathing at th« 

 base; stem-leaves small, alternate, more shortly petioled, 

 uppermost ovately lanceolate, nearly sessile, tapered at the 

 base. Stem herbaceous, upright, from a foot to a foot and 

 a half high, angularly round, hispid, purplish; upwards 

 paniculately branched, and leafy. Racemes at the top of 

 the branches, twin, short, ftirred, nutant, bracteate. 

 Bradet ovate, obtuse, furred, shorter than the pedicles. 

 Mowers numerous, light-purplisb-blue, cemuous. 

 of the cali/x obovately oblong, furred, upright. Tube of the 

 corolla nearly twice as long as the calyx, white, enlarged 

 upwards ; Jaux frured within, encircled at the top by short 

 rounded emarginate pubescent wMte valvules (hollow like the 



spur of a flower, with the orifice opening on the outside) ; limb 

 longer than the tube, segments linear, furred underneath, 

 horizontal at the bottom, revolute at the top. Stamens 



inserted into the faux, shorter than the limb when expanded, 

 upright, connivent, subulate, furred within, pinkish. j4n- 

 thers incumbent, oblong, black. Germen small, 4-cleft. 

 Style fili^rm, rose-colourisd, smooth, but little higher than 

 the stamens. Stigma obtuse, black. 



The principal part of the above specific description is a 

 Tersion of «ir J. E. Smith's, in the Flora Grseca. 



The drawing was taken at the nursery of Meiwrs. Whit- 

 ley and Co. Fulham. 



