being narrower and rather more hairy; but the leaves are longer 
and narrower than our var., or in Pohl’s figure. This it is which 
Mr. Bentham refers, in De Candolle’s forthcoming volume, to 
Pohl’s F. hydrangeeformis, whereas the present he has looked 
upon as a distinct species, his # capitata. 1 fear they are only 
slight varieties ; though neither yields to the other in beauty. It 
is cultivated in the stove and seems to have no particular season 
for flowering. Our drawing was made in October of the pre- 
sent year, and the plant is now showing bloom again (Dec. 1845). 
It is, with difficulty, increased by cuttings and does not bear 
seed with us. 
Dzscr. A low growing shrub, of robust habit, sparingly 
branched. eaves alternate, more crowded towards the apices 
of the éranch, six to eight or even ten inches long, firm, glabrous, 
oblong-obovate, quite entire, penninerved, the apex shortly acu- 
minate, the base cuneate, tapering gradually into a short thick 
foot-stalk. FYowers in a dense compound raceme or cyme, forming 
a rather large compact head, and in that respect resembling the 
Hydrangea hortensis. Bracteas and squamules at the base of the 
pedicels, lanceolate, membranaceous, ciliate or glabrous. Calyw 
in our plant oblong, broader upwards (in a, almost of equal dia- 
meter throughout), slightly hairy even in our var. g, with five 
sharp teeth or lobes. Coro//as large, of a fine rich blue-purple, 
becoming paler and almost white in age. Stamens included. 
Ovary seated upon a glandular ring; sfy/e included. Stigma 
bifid. 
Fig. 1. Calyx, with pistil. 2. Pistil :—smagnified. 
