Tauria and the Caucasus to Persia and the Altai mountains, 
ascending to 9000 feet in the Caucasus, and the var. cordi- 
folia inhabits the mountains of Armenia. Iam, unfortu- 
nately, unable to say whence the specimen here figured was 
procured, the drawing, with notes attached, having been 
lost in London after having been made use of by the ~ 
- colourist; it is, however, a well-known cultivated plant 
under the name of G. gelida, but it does not at Kew arrive 
at the stature of the specimen figured. : 
Desor. Stems several, ascending from a stout stock a 
foot high, stout, leafy throughout. Leaves gradually larger 
upwards, lowest a quarter of an inch long, upper one to 
one and a half inch long, all ovate-cordate, subacute, 
five-nerved, dark green above, spreading or deflexed, 
coriaceous, the upper often forming a sort of involucre. 
Flowers very numerous, in a compact rather elongate head, 
sessile or very shortly pedicelled, nearly two inches long. 
Calyx-lobes narrowly linear, equalling or shorter than the 
tubes. Corolla dark blue, clavate ; lobes five, small, ovate, 
subacute, the membranous folds multifid. Stamens inserted 
about the middle of the tube. Stigmas short, recurved. 
Capsule shortly stalked.—J. D. H. 
Fig. 1, corolla laid open; 2, calyx and ovary :—both enlarged. 
