well-defined spots at the throat. These spots, however, in the 
cultivated plant, are sometimes obsolete. We have raised plants 
in the Kew Gardens from seeds sent by Dr. Fischer of St. 
Petersburg. 
Descr. Root fusiform, woody, throwing up two or more 
erect, léafy, herbaceous stems, about a span or more high, downy 
with short hair. eaves spreading, somewhat hoary (especially 
when dry) from the rather soft pubescence, all sessile ; radical 
leaves large, obovato-oblong, cauline ones obovato-lanceolate, all 
of them rather obtuse and becoming smaller upwards. The 
stems terminate in a branched, scorpioid, leafy spike of large 
yellow flowers; these leaves or bracteas ovate. Calyz cylindrical, 
hairy, cut almost to the base into five, erect, linear, obtuse 
segments. Corolla between funnel- and salver-shaped, the mouth 
spreading; the fhe nearly twice as long as the calyx, hairy 
within ; the /imd cut into five nearly equal, rounded /odes, having 
a dark orbicular purple spot at the sinus of each pair of lobes. 
Stamens small, included. Style shorter than the tube. Stigma 
capitate, bifid. 
Fig. 1. Flower. 2. Tube laid open, showing the stamens and pistil :— 
magnified. 
