berg (of which he had seen no specimens, and of which neither 

 flowers nor fruit were described), is a remarkable instance of 

 the sagacity of that very distinguished botani 



The credit of the rediscovery of this plant is due to Mr. 

 Fortune, who sent it from Japan to Mr. Mandish, in whose 

 nursery at Bagshot it flowered last November. It grows four 

 to five feet high, and the copious blossoms which appear on the 

 axils of all the upper leaves, and which are of a pearly white 

 dotted with clear purple, render it as singular-looking as it is 

 beautiful. 



Descr. A slender, hairy, branching, herbaceous plant, three 

 to five feet high, with terete, leafy stems and braneke*. Leaves 

 alternate, two to three inches long, oblong or oblong- lanceolate, 

 sessile and amplexicaul at the base, acuminate and^recurved at 

 the apex, deep green, quite entire, with diverging veins. Ffa 

 in short axillary, two- to five-flowered erect racemes. Bracts 

 ovate-lanceolate, acuminate. Peduncles slender, terete, pilose 

 Flowers two inches broad, of a pearly white, with small purple 

 blotches, and here and there suffused with pink. Perumih 

 eatlets erect recurved above the middle, with a large, obscurely- 

 lobed, tumid gibbosity at the base. Filament* recurved at the 

 apex, spotted with purple, adnate to the back of the estrone 

 anther Ovary narrow linear, trigonous, pilose, with a long rtmle, 

 and three diverging bifid stigmas. 



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