Conandron. In a botanical point of view, its most remark- 
able character is its regular perianth, which is exceptional 
not only in the order to which it belongs, but in a great 
extent to the whole group of Personales. 
The Conandron was introduced from Japan by Messrs. 
Veitch, who sent the specimen here figured in July of last 
year; it has a tolerably wide range in Japan, inhabiting 
moist rocks in the mountains of Nippon and Kiusiu. 
Drsor. Root-stock tuberous, crowned with a tuft of silky 
brown hairs. Leaves four to seven inches long, all radical, 
subsessile or petioled, oblong or oblong-ovate or elliptic, 
acute or acuminate, irregularly acutely toothed, glabrous, 
often bullate between the spreading reticulating nerves ; 
petiole either slender and naked, or broadly winged, the 
wing undulated and toothed like the leaf-blade. Scapes one 
to four, shorter than the leaves, hairy or glabrate, curved, 
quite naked. Cymes compound, drooping, pubescent, six- 
to twelve-flowered. Flowers pedicelled. Calyx-lobes slender. 
Corolla one inch in diameter, white or pink with a purplish 
eye ; tube very short, funnel-shaped, lobes spreading, ovate, 
acute, tips recurved. Stamens five, equal, filaments very 
short ; anthers broadly oblong, with the connective pro- 
duced into a long point, both cells and connectives connate 
into a beaked tube. Ovary elongate, narrowed into a 
slender style with a minute capitate stigma. Capsules one- 
third to one-half of an inch long, membranous, terete, lanceo- 
late, terminated by the persistent style. Seeds very minute, 
narrowly ellipsoid or oblong, narrowed at both ends, usually 
slightly curved in a sigmoid manner; testa pale brown, 
quite smooth.—_J. D. H. 
Fig. 1, fruiting cyme; 2, stamens; 3, pistil; 4, transverse section of pistil :-— 
all but fig. 1 enlarged, : a F 
