penninerved, thrice as long as the petiole. Panicle terminating 
the branches, leafy. Pedicels elongated. Floral leaves gra- 
dually passing into dracteas. Flowers drooping. Calyz shortly 
campanulate, sharply five-toothed, in fruit much enlarged and 
elongated, becoming tubular or cylindrical, and then erect. Co- 
rolla more than an inch long, slightly curved downwards, 
between campanulate and infundibuliform, the mouth spreading, 
the lobes short, rounded, obtuse ; the colour is yellow-green with 
a slight tinge of purple, marked with longitudinal purple lines, 
connected by oblique transverse ones. Stamens five, nearly 
equal. F%/aments as long as the corolla or nearly so. Anthers 
large, pale yellow, ovate. Ovary subrotund, the upper portion, 
or that which will form the lid, contracted at its insertion. Style 
filiform, flexuose, longer than the corolla, slightly thickened up- 
wards. Stigma dilated and umbilicate, depressed. W. J. H. 
Curr. A strong-rooted, hardy, herbaceous plant, thriving in 
any kind of garden-soil. It may be increased by dividing the 
roots, which should be done’ in autumn or early in the spring. 
J. S. 
Fig. 1. Section of a calyx, showing the pistil :—magnified. 
