like alpine plants in general. In the spring of this year we wit- 
nessed its beautiful appearance thus treated in Messrs. Veitch’s 
Nursery, Exeter. 
Descr. Herbaceous, slightly pilose on the scape, veins of the 
foliage, etc. Leaves mostly radical, long-petiolate, cordate, with 
a deep sinus, obtuse, unequally lobed, and crenate all round the 
margin, rather strongly veined, pale-coloured beneath. Scape a 
foot and more long, erect, terete, bearing one or two petiolated 
leaves at the base. /owers in opposite pairs, racemose, each 
subdented by a somewhat palmate or digitated, erect, herba- 
ceous dract. Pedicels single-flowered, an mch and a half long, 
tinged with red, erect. Hower drooping. Calyx green, tinged 
with purple, of five, spreading, deep, lanceolate lobes. Corolla 
as long as the pedicels, bright scarlet; ‘wbe long, dilated, up- 
wards ; dimd two-lipped, five-lobed, each lobe obtuse and bifid, 
scarcely patent. Stamens included ; ji/aments inserted above the 
iy of the tube. Ovary ovate. Style filiform, as long as the 
corolla. 
Fig. 1. Corolla, laid open. 2. Pistil :—maguified. 
