ascertaining whether it has been described by any author. 
It is quite different from the F. Sieboldiana, and still more 
so from the other known species, F. Japonica and F. ce- 
rulea. It has been treated with us as a greenhouse plant, 
flowering in July. 
Descr. Root? Leaves all of them radical, petiolate, 
ovato-lanceolate, very acute, about seven-nerved, green, 
elegantly margined with white. Petiole longer than the 
leaf, grooved on the upper side. Scape racemose, longer 
than the leaves. Raceme of twelve to fourteen large, hand- 
some, declinate flowers, lilac-purple streaked with white, 
and deeper purple lines. Pedicels short. Bracteas ovate, 
leafy, twice as long as the pedicels. Perianth funnel- 
shaped, the tube slender below, widening considerably at 
the mouth, and there forming a broad, slightly oblique 
limb, cut into six, oblong, acute lobes. Stamens declinate, 
curved upwards at the extremity, as long as the perianth. 
Anthers yellow. 
