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PTEROSTIGMA grandiflorum. 
Large-flowered Wingpoint. 
DIDYNAMIA ANGIOSPERMIA. 
Nat. ord. SCROPHULARIACE =, (Fieworts, Veg. Kingdom, p. 681. 
ined.) 
PTEROSTIGMA. Calyx quinquepartitus v. quinquefidus, lacinia pos- 
tica majore. Corolla hypogyna, bilabiata, labio superiore emarginato inferiore 
trilobo. Stamina 4, corollee tubo inserta, postica fertilia, antheris bilocula- 
ribus, loculis disjunctis, stipitatis; antica sterilia v. antheris dimidiatis. 
Ovarium biloculare, placentis medio dissepimento adnatis, multiovulatis. 
Stylus simplex; stigma subincrassatum, integrum, ssepius utrinque ala mem- 
branacea cinctum. Capsula rostrata, bisulca, bilocularis, loculicide bivalvis, 
valvulis bifidis, dissepimento e marginibus introflexis duplicato, demum 
libero, placentis adnatis v. tandem solutis. Semina plurima, striata. —— 
Herb® indice, dure, villose, sicce sepius nigrescentes, odore aromatico Labia- 
tarum ; foliis oppositis, rugosis, crenulatis, floribus capitatis, racemosis, sparsis 
v. inferioribus oppositis, pedicellis drevibus, apice sepius bracteatis.—Endl. 
gen. no. 3924. 
P. grandiflorum (Bentham, Seroph. Ind. p. 21. Hooker and Arnott, Botany 
of Capt. Beechey's Voyage, p. 204. t. 45. Journal of the Horticultural 
Society, 1. p. 66); foliis ovatis, corollis amplè tubulosis calyce plus 
duplo longioribus pollicaribus, floribus racemosis,—Walpers Repert. 
3. 265. 
Gerardia glutinosa, Linn. sp. pl. 849. 
Digitalis chinensis, Loureiro fl. cochinch. (ed. Willd.) 2. 459. 
This is one of the new introductions by the Horticultural 
Society. It was received from Mr. Fortune, who described it 
as a blue flowered herbaceous plant growing on hill sides and 
near streams, on the island of Hong-Kong. It is however 
only new to our gardens, for it seems to have been one of the 
earliest species brought in a dried state from China, being 
common about Macao and the adjacent islands. One of our 
wild specimens, collected by the Rev. Mr. Vachell in July, 
1829, has a close spike of flowers from the axil of every leaf, 
and if cultivators can get it into that state, it will become very 
ornamental. 
The following account of it is given in the J ournal of the 
Horticultural Society :— 
< In its wild state this plant does not appear to grow more 
than a foot or 18 inches high ; but in gardens it has become 
more than three feet high, the conseguence of which is that 
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