ntqnaquain decurrentia, indnm ambientia, kumi sub anthesi recumbentiay 

 sinuata^ crenata, superiora obsolete sinuata crenataguc, summa lato-cordata 

 crenata cum acumine. Spica elongata^ bractese trinm lanceotato-acuminat^jB 

 txtus tomentos<By una (in cujus axilld sedet fios) jnajor^ 2 minores calyci 

 subtens{e aUpte cequales^ cam majori decussantes, adscendentes, Cal. al- 

 bo-lanatus, subbUabiato-rotatus^ semi-^Jidns segmentis acuminatis, intiis 

 nudus 7titens. Flores suaveolentes : cor- sesquiunciam v^ ultrd transversaf 

 sulfarea areola faudali nigricante nudiusculd lucidd ; limbus bilabiato- 

 rotatus extus tomentosus, laciniis rotundatiSf 2 superioribus subminoribus 

 divisura mutud breviorej 3 inferioribus tubo teniis partitist korum media 

 majore orbiculatd; tubus brevissimus intiis nigricans. Stam. summo tubo 

 inserta; & superiors conniventia erecta areold nigra vix longioray Jilavientis 

 atropurpureis hirsuto-barbatis ; anth. lunutatw, barbd pallid^ lutescenti re- 

 ceptaculi sui nidulantes; 2 inferiora declinata invicim divergentiaj Jtlainentis 

 cwnpresso-^liformibus nigricantifnis Jtrmis robustis nudiusculis infemi se- 

 cundum latus interius pilis paucis raris conspersis: anth. nudce^ compressor 

 Uneares angust(Bf unilocnlares mentientes^ per Uttus interius ^lamenti carinato- 

 adnattB,rimd medid longitudinali dehiscentes, thec^ viridiusculd subnavicularit 

 -poMine aurantiaco-^avescente grumoso: pubes stamioea e pilis clavato-capi- 

 tatis* Stylus purpureuSf Jiliformis, glaber, supem^ subdavato-grossescens, 

 Jilamentis inferioribus eequaUs dnplo vero tennior: stigma viride, bilabiato^ 

 capitatum pruinosum, hbis crassis obtusis replicatis: germen ovato-rotvndum, 

 panmlum, albo-lanatum, Don MSS. 



The species made its first appearance in this country in 

 the Physic Garden at Chelsea^ where seeds had been sent 

 by Dr. Fischer from the Gorenki Garden at Moscow. Its 

 native spot is not specified; but is probably somewhere 

 within the oriental provinces of Russia. 



In Professor's Link's Catalogue of the Berlin Garden 

 the species is made synonymous with Vebbascum spectabile 

 of the Supplement to the Flora Taurico-caucasica ; but if 

 the description of that species comes even near to the truth, 

 which from the usual correctness and fidelity of its author 

 there is no reason to doubt, the two can never belong 

 to the same type; and we have consequently retained the 

 one before us under the title by which it is accurately de- 

 scribed, but indiflferently figured in " The Rare Plants of 

 the Botanic Garden at Munich^ hy M. Schranck^ 



Formosum is distinguished from its known congeners by 

 leaves which are not decurrent, the lowermost of which are 

 petioled and sinuated, by a loosishly-set spike of large sul- 

 phur-coloured flowers with a black-purple smooth shining 

 fauxj and by two lower longer declined nearly smooth 

 stamens. 



