in Kent. According to Alphonse De Candolle, it is a native 
of the evergreen region of Italy south of latitude 41°, and 
struggles through the lower woodland region up to the upper 
limits of the beech, about 3000 feet above the sea, growing 
in exceedingly dense tufts on limestone rocks. We have, 
however, specimens gathered by Mr. Grove at 5000 feet 
elevation, in the valley of Orfenda of the Abruzzi. 
Descr. A glabrous hairy or pubescent decumbent herb, 
with slender branches six to ten inches long springing 
from a woody perennial root-stock. Leaves scattered, long- 
petioled ; the lower ovate or rounded-ovate, acute or obtuse, 
coarsely crenate-toothed, shorter than the petioles, which 
are one and a half inch long; the upper narrower and 
shorter petioled. Flowers axillary and in lax terminal 
corymbs, pedicelled, bright pale blue. © Calya-tube sub- 
globose, grooved; lobes three-fourths the length of the 
corolla, linear-lanceolate, acuminate, quite entire, sinus 
without a fold. Corolla one and a half to two inches in 
diameter, almost flat, the tube being but slightly concave, 
five-lobed to about the middle; lobes broadly ovate, sub- 
sae he long, slender ; stigmas three, oblong, obtuse. 
Fig. 1, Top of style and stigma :—enlarged. 
