the Botanic Garden at Sheffield. Apart from the claims upon | 
our attention on account of its ornamental blossoms, it is inter- 
esting as being a hybrid between the two most typical species 
of two different genera, having the thick tuberous rhizome and 
the tube of the corolla of Zigeria, and the five-winged calyx of 
Sinningia. 
Descr. Pubescent. Rhizome tuberous, several inches in dia- 
meter. Stem herbaceous, erect, purplish, from one foot to 
eighteen inches high. eaves opposite, petiolated, oblong or 
ovate, oblong, crenated, green and glossy above, pale, almost 
whitish, below. /owers axillary or terminal, solitary. Peduncle 
twice or three times the length of the petiole. Calyz five-winged, 
five-lobed ; /obes ovate, acuminate. Corol/a with a campanulate 
tube, and five, almost equal, round /odes, more or less intensely 
purple or violet, with the exception of the tube, which is a yellow- 
ish-white at the base, and at the throat, which is spotted. Ovary 
surrounded by five subulate glands. Stamens shorter than the 
tube of the corolla and the style. Stigma two-lipped. Ovules 
sterile. Berthold Seemann. 
Fig. 1. Ovary, style, and stigma :—slightly magnified. 
