Boreali collegit Dr. Au. Buyer, Anno 1831.” On his return, 
he explored the Altaic Mountains with such success as to 
be rewarded by the discovery of three hundred and fifty 
species of plants, including many new ones, and which will 
form a valuable supplement to the already extensive Flora 
of that country, published by Dr. Leprsour. Treated as 
a hardy greenhouse plant, Reamannia Sinensis flowers 
readily in the early summer. Its blossoms vary somewhat 
in size and in colour, as may be seen by a comparison of 
our figure with that of Professor Linp.ey. 
Descr. Pubescenti-hirsute. Stem from a span to a foot 
high, erect, weak, tinged with purple, branched at the base. 
Leaves obovate, alternate, tapering into a short stalk at 
the base, acute, remotely and coarsely subinciso-serrate, 
somewhat shining, wrinkled with veins: lower petioles 
about an inch long. Pedunecles axillary, solitary, from 
almost every leaf, single-flowered, longer than the leaf. 
Calyx tube oval, inflated, striated with ten elevated lines, 
the limb of five recurved ovate segments, of which the 
two lower ones are set more apart than the rest. Corolla 
large, handsome, yellowish-buff, deeply tinged at the mouth 
and upper part of the tube both within and without; 
dark purple, hairy all over; the tube remarkably com- 
pressed, the limb large, spreading, two-lipped, upper lip of 
two, lower of three oval, obtuse, emarginate lobes, marked 
with reticulated veins as in Hyoscyamus. Stamens and style 
quite included. Filaments four, didynamous, yellow, 
spotted with purple, not half the length of the corolla, and 
arising from near its base. Anthers of two diverging, 
oblong cells. Germen ovate, green, inserted on an annu- 
lar disk, one-celled with two parietal placente, bearing 
two lobes with numerous ovules. Style reaching the 
height of the stamens. Stigma two-lipped, as in Mimu.vs. 
