gradually narrowed into a revolute spur. Of these forms, 
that called pallens by Edgeworth is the I. bicolor of Royle, 
a name which has priority, but does not apply to the 
prevalent form of the species, and which has further been 
inadvertently applied to a very different plant, the West 
African I. bicolor of this work (Tab. 5366). 
I amphorata was introduced into Kew by seed from 
Kashmir, and flowers annually abundantly in the months 
of August and September. It was in cultivation forty 
years ago in the Horticultural Gardens, having been sent 
from the gardens of Saharunpore, in North-West India, 
when these were under the superintendence of the late 
Dr. Royle. 
_ Descr. Annual, three to six feet high, erect; stem as 
thick as the thumb at the base, succulent, branched up- 
wards. Leaves three to six inches long, petioled, elliptic- 
ovate or lanceolate, acuminate, finely crenate-serrate, bright 
green, with often pink edges and midrib; petioles with 
glands for stipules. Racemes two to five inches long, in 
the upper axils, many-flowered; pedicels slender, one-half 
to three-fourths of an inch long, alternate or sub-whorled 
or subumbellate; bracts ovate, green, very deciduous. 
Flowers one and a half inches long, pale purple, suffused 
and speckled with rose-red; sepals broadly orbicular-cordate, 
acute, greenish; standard orbicular, two-lobed or notched 
at the top, crested or spurred behind ; wings two-thirds of 
an inch long, lateral lobe rounded, terminal pendulous 
obtuse with a lobule on the outer margin; lip cylindri- 
saccate, tip rounded with an abrupt short slender red ~ 
incurved spur. Capsule one and a half inches long, linear, | 
acuminate, grooved. Seeds with a rugose blackish testa.— 
B Be 9 fer 2 & 
Fig. 1, sepal; 2, staminal column ; 3, seed; 4, embryo :—all enlarged. 
