work plants, and though once long lost to cultivation, is not 
likely to be so again, now that herbaceous plants are fast 
becoming favourites with intelligent collectors. The speci- 
men here figured was raised from Himalayan seeds, and 
flowered in the open border in July and August. 
Descr. A soft densely tufted low herb, with faintly milky 
juice. Stems decumbent, sending up numerous ascending 
slender usually simple one-flowered leafy branches, that are 
covered with brown spreading hairs or glabrate. Leaves 
one-half to one inch long, alternate, narrowly cuneate or 
cuneate-obovate, three- to five-lobed, the lobes entire or 
crenately cut, narrowed into a broad petiole, glabrous or 
sparingly hairy. Flowers solitary, terminal, erect in bud, 
then horizontal, one to one and a quarter of an inch long. 
Calyz broadly tubular and somewhat inflated, brown-black 
and clothed densely with dark brown long soft hairs; lobes 
about one-fourth the length of the tube, triangular-lanceo- 
late, acute, erect. Corolla-tube broad, longer than the calyx; 
limb one to one and a quarter of an inch in diameter, throat 
open, bearded; lobes spreading and recurved, deep violet- 
blue, paler towards the throat, obovate with a minute 
bearded point. Stamens forming a membranous five-toothed 
tube around the ovary, filaments at length free and slender; 
anthers remaining united and bursting inwards. Ovary 
wholly superior, ovoid, five-grooved and five-celled; style 
rather short, glabrous, stigma with five short spreading 
teeth.—J. D. H. ; 
Fig. 1, young ovary and staminal tube; 2, stamens; 3, transverse section of 
ovary :—all enlarged. 
