G. Andrewsii is common in the damp woods of the North- 
eastern United States and Canada; it was brought into Kew 
in 1776 by a Mr. William Young, and appears to have been 
introduced into England even at an earlier period by Messrs. 
Loddiges. It flowers in August and September at Kew, 
where, however, it does not attain the status and development 
which it does at Mr. G. Wilson’s, of Heatherbank. Weybridge, 
to whom I owe the magnificent specimen here figured. 
Descr. A tall stout usually simple-stemmed biennial, one tc 
two feet high, quite glabrous. S/em cylindric, leafy. Leave: 
two to four inches long, lanceolate or ovate-lanceolate from : 
sessile narrow base, coriaceous, 3-nerved, deep green, with 
rough margins. Flowers crowded in dense terminal heads 
and also fascicled in the axils of the leaves, one and a hal 
inches long, erect, sessile or very shortly pedicelled. Calyx. 
tube cylindric ; lobes ovate, narrowed at the base, spreading 
not half the length of the tube. Corolla much longer than 
the calyx, inflated and club-shaped, obtusely 5-angled, deep 
bright blue, mouth much contracted, teeth very obscure 
between the small fimbriated reflexed folds. Stamens with 
broad flattened converging filaments; anthers sagittate coher- 
ing. Ovary pedicelled ; style short, stigmas removed. Cap- 
sule exserted. Seeds with a broad obtuse wing.—J. D. H. 
Fig. 1, calyx; 2, vertical section of flower ; 3, stamen and pistil; 4, stigmas ; 
5,'seed :—all but Fig. 2, enlarged. 
