in C. umbrosa “ coccinei ”, according to Humboldt. If, however, 
only the dry specimen be examined, our plant as well as the 
C. umbrosa may be supposed to have red flowers; and hence 
our valuable friend Mr. Miers has observed in the Journal above 
quoted, of oiu- C. lanceolata, that “the corolla seems crimson”. 
When recent, the flowers are as rich and deep a blue, a little 
inclining to purple, as the lochroma figured by Dr. Lindley and 
their fine colour constitutes one of the great charms of the 
plant. 
Descr. a sJmib four to five feet high, the young branches her¬ 
baceous, downy with stellated hair. Leaves alternate, rather large, 
oval or elliptical-lanceolate, membranaceous, acute, entire, tapering 
below into a long petiole, slightly downy above, beneath stellato- 
tomentose, the young leaves arachnoid: in age, however, almost 
every part becomes glabrous. Umbels axillary, or rather supra- 
axillary, and terminal or nearly so, almost sessile, downy. Fedi- 
cels slender, fihform, pendent. Floicers drooping. Calyoc 
between urceolate and cylindrical, unequally five-toothed, the 
teeth blunt, erect: there is besides a cleft a little way down on 
one side. Corolla two inches long, rich deep purplish-blue, 
cylindrical, glabrous, somewhat dilated at the mouth into a short 
five-toothed spreading limb, which is downy. Stamens rather 
shorter than the style : both scarcely exserted. 
Fig. 1. Stamen. 2. Pistil;— magnified. 
