ment 26 in. wide,” mentioned in the description, to belong 
to S. Haygarthit, in which the leaves are only six to ten 
inches long and four to six and a half inches wide at the 
most. From this cause we learn from Mr. Wood that seeds 
of the large leaved plant were sent as S. Haygarthii by 
Mr. Wood to Mr. W. E. Ledger, of Wimbledon, who 
presented some to the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, in 
1904, from which the plant here figured was raised, and 
flowered this year from May to July. 
Descr.—Stemless. Leaf solitary, spreading on the 
ground, two to three and a half feet long, one to two and 
a quarter feet broad, ovate, cordate at the base, crenate, 
somewhat harshly pubescent on both sides with short, 
stiff, erect hairs, bright deep green; veins impressed 
above, very prominent beneath. F'lower-stems numerous, 
one and a half to three and a half feet high, forking above 
into two to six elongating; lax racemes, pubescent like 
the leaf, purplish-brown. lowers in pairs. Bracts very 
small, long, linear-subulate, acute. Pedicels half to three- 
quarters of an inch long, spreading, pubescent with simple 
and gland-tipped hairs. Sepals about one-sixth of an 
inch long, subulate, acute, erect, pubescent like the 
pedicels. Corolla-tube about one inch long, slightly curved 
downwards at the middle, subcylindric, pubescent with 
minutely gland-tipped hairs, light blue outside, white © 
within, marked with two broad violet stripes in the throat; 
limb oblique, about three-quarters of an inch across ; lobes 
oblong, rounded, the two upper equal, light blue, the 
three lower unequal, paler blue with whitish disks. 
Stamens included ; two perfect on the lower side of the 
tube, three rudimentary and antherless on the upper side; 
filaments of the perfect stamens very short, glabrous, 
white ; anthers subreniform, cohering, glabrous, whitish. 
Ovary with style included, terete, pubescent with spread- 
ing, jointed, skarp-pointed hairs (not gland-tipped, as 
represented on the plate); stigma capitate, transverse. 
Capsule three to three and a half inches long, about one 
line thick, twisted, harshly pubescent with simple hairs.— 
N. E. Brown. 
Fig. 1, portion of a leaf; 2, calyx and pistil; 3, corolla laid open; 4 and 
5, anthers : all enlarged ; 6, whole plant: much reduced. 
