Tas. 6785. 
PING UICULA garrrirrtora. 
Native of Italy and Greece. 
Nat. Ord. LENTIBULARIER. 
Genus Pinevicuna, Linn. ; (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen, Pl. vol. ii. p- 988.) 
_Piyavicvta hirtiflora; tota glandulosa, foliis oblongis v. lineari-lingulatis 
sessilibus v. in petiolum angustatis obtusis v. retusis, scapis hirtis, calycis 
glandulosi segmentis oblongis obtusis, corolla lilacina v. rosea glabra v. sparse 
glandulosa, labii superioris Tobis integris, inferioris lobis majoribus, fauce lutea, 
calcare subulato recto v. incurvo, capsula globosa calyce breviore. 
P. hirtiflora, Tenore Fl. Neap. Prodr. p. vi.; Fl. Nap. vol. iii. p. 18, t. 201; 
Boiss. Fl. Orient. vol. iv. p. 2. 
P. megaspilwa, Boiss. e¢ Heldr. MSS. 
P. albanica, Griseb. Spicileg. Fl. Rumel. vol. ii. p. 9. 
P. lusitanica, Salzm. Pl. Cors. ewsicc.; Reichb. Pl. Crit. vol. i. p. 70, t. 84. 
P. vulgaris, Salis Marschl. Enum. Pl. Cors. in Flora, 1834, vol. ii. Beibl. p. 14; 
A, DC. Prodr. vol. viii. p. 28. : 
The pretty little plant here figured has been much mis- 
understood by authors, as its synonymy shows, due, no 
doubt, to the difficulty of examining it in a dry state. Its 
nearest northern ally is P. vulgaris, which differs in the 
bright blue colour of the flower, and the retuse lobes of the 
corolla, as also in its less globose capsule. Tenore, indeed, 
describes the flowers of P. hirtiflora as azure; but this 
appears to be a mistake; Boissier says they are lilac or 
rose-colour, as does J. Gay in a manuscript note in his 
Herbarium. - 
P. hirtiflora is a mountain plant of rather restricted 
geographical range. Corsica is its eastern limit; itis found 
in several places in the province of Naples; it occurs in 
Herzegovina, Albania, and various parts of Greece, where 
it attains 6000 feet elevation; the Balkan is its northern 
limit, and the Island of Poros its eastern. 
For the specimen here figured the Royal Gardens are 
indebted to Miss E. M. Owen, of Gorey, Ireland; they 
flowered in a cool pit in the month of February. 
NOVEMBER Ist, 1884. 
