likewise in shady situations, but on granite rocks, two 
thousand five hundred feet above the sea. It is much 
‘more plentiful in the former place. Several varieties have 
been discovered that differ slightly in colour of the 
flowers, but all are blue.’ Seeds were sent to his father 
by Baron Walter; from these plants were raised by Dr. 
Wendland at Herrenhausen, which flowered in 1893, and 
were exhibited at the International Horticultural Exhibi-— 
tion, held in that year in Ghent. 
The specimen figured here was raised from seeds 
obtained from a continental nurseryman, and flowered in 
the Royal Gardens in July, 1894, under Gloxinia treat-— 
ment. 
The affinity of Saintpaulia is, according to Mr. C. B. 
Clarke, who has monographed the Cyrtandrex, to be re- 
garded as doubtful, until the ripe fruitis known. In habit 
and floral characters it perfectly agrees with Boea, Comm., 
a tropical Asiatic genus; but in that the capsule is long, 
slender, and twisted, whereas in Saintpaulia, judging from 
the immature fruit (fig. 7) it would appear to be short and 
straight. 
Descr.—A perennial, stemless, hirsutely pubescent herb. | 
Leaves one and a half to two inches long, shortly 
stoutly petioled, ovate- or oblong-cordate, obtuse, crenate, 
dark green, basal sinus closed; nerves few, spreading, 
deeply sunk on the upper surface, much raised beneath. 
Flowers in stoutly peduncled cymes, nodding ; pedicels one 
half to one inch long; bracts small, narrow. Sepals 5-7; 
linear, obtuse, erect, green. Corolla an inch in diameters 
subrotate, pale blue; tube much shorter than the sepals ; 
limb bilabiate; upper lip 2-lobed, much the smallest; 
lower spreading, lobes: all orbicular, concave, ciliolate- 
Stamens 2, inserted in the contracted mouth of the tubes 
filaments short, stout; anthers shortly exserted, didymous, 
conniving ; staminodes minute conical projections in the 
throat of the corolla. Ovary ovoid, hirsute, style filiform, 
stigma purple. Ovules many, on the revolute arms of tw 
parietal placentas. Capsule ovoid, hairy.—J. D. #. 
Fig. 1, Calyx and style; 2, tube of corolla laid open and stamen; 3, ovary 
and disk; 4, transverse section of ovary; 5, hair of margin of corolla 5 
6, ovules; 7, immature fruit All enlarged, 
