nervosum, Ait., and candicans, DC. Cat. Hort. Monsp., as 
synonyms), as having a spiciform cylindric panicle and 
splendidly blue flowers, which is the reverse of Jacquin’s 
character and figure. , 
Lastly Carriere figures, in the “‘ Revue Horticole ” (1876, 
p- 10), as the Madeiran H. fastuoswm, Jacq., a plant with a 
dense spiciform cylindric panicle of the deepest gentian- 
blue corollas having broad short retuse lobes. 
There are two other authorities for EH. candicans, 
Lamarck’s “ Encycloped.” t. 94, which is altogether bad 
and unrecognizable, and Savi’s “Flora Italiana,” vol. ii. 
t. 91, a work I have not seen. 
Referring to Herbarium specimens, the counterpart of 
the plant here figured is from Madeira, named, apparently 
by Webb, (wrongly) “ H. nervosum, Ait., HE. fastuosum, DC. 
Prodr.,” and there are other specimens both from Madeira 
and the Canaries named candicans and virescens differing 
very slightly, and chiefly in the more cylindric panicle. 
There are also specimens with the spiciform panicle of 
dense blue flowers named by Lowe JL. candicans, from the 
Waterfall, alt. 3000 ft. 
The plant here figured was received from Sir G. Macleay, 
and flowered, when three feet in height, in April, 1885. <A 
very similar one has been long in cultivation in the Tem- 
perate House, but I am not aware of its origin; it forms a 
bush six feet high with an arboreous trunk and foliage of 
a green colour when fresh, but hoary-white when dry, and 
flowers in spring.—J. D. H. 
_ Fig. 1, Reduced view of whole plant; 2, leaves, and 3, panicle of the natural 
size; 4, flower-bud ; 5, stamens; 6, ovary:—all enlarged. 
