way down and the style-arms are longer than the undivided 
portion. Under his original description of C. Beauverdiana 
Dr. Fomin mentions a gathering by Sintenis from Kirkpauli 
in Turkish Armenia, the specimens of which were distri- 
buted as C. Steveni under the number 5647. At Kew, 
however, the specimens of Sintenis n. 5647 consist in part 
of C. Steveni, in part of C. Beauverdiana, so that in Armenia 
as in Persia the two species evidently grow together. 
C. Beawverdiana is a perennial, in character much resem- 
bling the native C. rotundifolia, Linn. ; it thrives well and 
flowers freely under the conditions suited to that species, 
and is at its best in May and June. 
Descriprion.—Herb, glabrous or finely hairy, reaching 
2 ft. in height, with a slender short rootstock and slender 
erect or ascending stems. Leaves below oblong-ovate or 
wide ovate, 24 in. long, 2 in. wide, obtuse, crenate-serrate, 
narrowed into a petiole rather longer than the blade; 
leaves higher up sessile, smaller than the lower, linear- 
lanceolate or lanceolate, acute, sparingly glandular toothed ; 
uppermost leaves linear, acuminate with a spongy tubercle 
at the base below. lowers solitary or few; pedicels 
slender, the longest nearly 3 in. long. Calyx with a narrow 
obconic 10-ribbed tube, about 4 lin. long, beset with white 
inflated papillae between the ribs; lobes narrow lanceolate, 
acuminate, nearly or quite twice as long as the tube. 
Corolla blue, glabrous, wide campanulate, 1; in. across, 
twice as long as the calyx-lobes or rather longer ; lobes half 
as long as tube. Filaments subulate, glabrous, springing 
from a subquadrate, pilose base. Style divided to the 
middle, the arms purple, densely hairy on the outer side. 
Fig. 1, calyx and pistil; 2 and 3, stamens :—al/ enlarged. 
