pedicellate, in superposed verticils. Other species of this 
section already figured in the Botanical Magazine are: 
P. japonica (t. 5916), P. prolifera (t. 6732), P. Poissont 
(t. 7216), and P. imperialis (t. 7217). 
Descr.—A perennial herb, almost glabrescent, except the 
more or less farinose inflorescence. Leaves often long- 
petioled, membranous, narrowly obovate-oblong, two to 
five inches long, including the petiole, three-quarters to 
one inch and a quarter wide above the middle, obscurely 
lobed, minutely toothed, rounded at the apex, gradually 
narrowed towards the base, somewhat pulverulent, espe- 
cially on the underside. Scape slender, erect, four to 
twelve inches high, with the flowers in two to four super- 
posed verticils, each two- to seven-flowered. Bracts linear- 
triangular, a twelfth to aneighth of an inchlong. Pedicels 
ascending, half to three-quarters of an inch long. Caly« 
narrowly campanulate, about a sixth of an inch long; lobes 
ovate-deltoid, scarcely a twelfth of an inch long, erect, 
acute, densely farinose inside. Corolla a rich orange-red, 
glabrous ; tube cylindric, somewhat enlarged at the apex, 
searcely half an inch long; limb spreading, about half an 
inch in diameter; lobes obovate, cordate or retuse at the 
apex. Capsule oblong, a quarter of an inch long and an 
eighth of an inch broad.—S. A. Sxay. 
Fig. 1, calyx and pistil ; 2, corolla laid open; 3, ovary :—all enlarged. 
