colour of the flowers from white to pale rose-colour, 

 variegated with purple, and a white throat. In the figure 

 given in the " Grarteuflora," the flowers are represented of 

 a rather muddy rose-colour, much deeper than in the 

 figure here given, and a white flower is also represented. 

 The foliage, too, is far more luxuriant in the St. Petersburg 

 than in our specimen. The specific name is that of the 

 Military Governor of the province where the plant was 

 found. Mr. Elwes gave me the specimen here figured, 

 which flowered in a frame with him in April, 1867. 



Desce. A low glaucous, quite glabrous succulent tuber- 

 ous herb. Stem four to eight inches high, sparingly 

 branched from the base, and sparingly leafy. Leaves 

 alternate, pale green, four to five inches long, bipinnate ; 

 petiole long and rachis slender ; pinnae petiolulate, three- 

 quarters of an inch long, ovate in outline ; pinnules cunei- 

 form, two-to-five lobed ; lobes linear, obtuse. 'Racemes 

 four to six inches long, erect, slender, lax-flowered ; bracts 

 green, oblong, obtuse, shorter than the slender pedicels. 

 Sepals very minute and of irregular form. Corolla gibbous 

 at the base, three- quarters of an inch long from the tip of 

 the lips to that of the spur, white or pink with a purple 

 throat; lips short, equal, spreading, ovate, concave, but 

 with the margins expanded or slightly reflexed ; spur 

 ascending, slightly curved, about twice as long as the limb 

 of the corolla ; tip more or less decurved, obtuse. Stigma 

 orbicular, stellately crenate. Capsule elliptic-oblong, pen- 

 dulous. — J". D. H. 



Fig. 1, Flowers ; 2, sepals ; 3, ovary : — all enlarged. 



