India” to T. asiatica, being quite unable to distinguis 
these in a dried state; and a reference to the figure of thai 
striking plant at Plate 4249, together with another of T. 
hirsuta (Plate 5167) (also referred by me to asiatica), show: 
how close the three are in all structural characters, differin 
chiefly in the colour of the corolla. T. asiatica and T 
hirsuta are natives of India; the former extending fron 
the mountains of the Madras Peninsula and Ceylon to th 
Malay Peninsula and Java; the latter was described fro1 
plants introduced by Messrs. Low, of Clapton, the exac 
locality of which is not given. 7. concolor, again, was sen 
from China to the Horticultural Society’s Gardens in 18 
by Mr. Fortune, who found it in marshy ground in Hong 
kong, at about 2000 feet above the sea. 
The Kew plants, which flowered in August, were rais 
from seed sent by Mr. C. Ford, the Superintendent of th 
Hongkong Botanical Gardens, in December, 1881, alo 
with Utricularia bifida (Plate 6689), 
T. Fordii is a very different species from T’. concolor, bu 
no less puzzling. Its nearest ally is, no doubt, T. cordifola 
figured at Plate 3715 of this work, and to which name 
has more title from the shape of the leaf than the pla 
there represented. JT. cordifolia has, however, narrow 
leaves, a much more broadly winged calyx, and a corolla 
a pale blue colour. 1’. parviflora is another near ally, an 
is a very widely diffused plant in the tropics of both world 
but it is glabrous, has much narrower leaves, a much large: 
calyx, and blue corolla. 
T. Fordii was discovered by Mr. C. Ford during 2 
excursion which he made to the Lo-fau-shan Mountain 
which are on the coast opposite the Island of Hongkon 
and from whence he sent seeds in 1883, the plants fro 
which flowered in June, 1884. 
Both T. concolor and Fordii are very attractive sto 
plants, flowering for several months continuously.—J. D. 
A.—T. concolor. Fig. 1, Stamens; 2, ovary; 3, section of ditto:—all enlarg 
B.—T. Fordii. Fig. 1, Stamens; 2, ovary ; 3, section of ditto :—all enla 
