the two, it having (with some damage, however) resisted 
the effects of the coldest winters, to one of which JV. 
Balfouriana succumbed. The figure is from a plant that 
flowered on a rockery in my garden in June, 1895. It 
was received in the previous year from the Royal Botanic 
Garden of Edinburgh. In the Royal Gardens, Kew, it has 
proved quite hardy. . 
Descr.—An erect, glabrous shrub, three feet high, with 
dark brown bark and suberect flexuous purpli brown or 
reddish branches. eaves subsessile, one half to three- 
fourths of an inch long, in loosely approximate pairs, — 
spreading and decurved, elliptic-ovate, obtuse or subacute, 
quite entire, coriaceous, bright pale green and shining 
above, with narrow brown margins. ftacemes opposite, 
axillary from the base of the last year’s shoots, two to three 
inches long, erecto-patent, very many-fid., peduncle stout ; 
flowers crowded; pedicels about as long as the calyx, 
puberulous; bracts ovate, acute or obtuse, about as long 
as the pedicel. Sepals about one-sixth of an inch long, 
obtuse or acute, ciliolate. Corolla pale violet-blue, half an 
inch in diameter, tube as long as the sepals; lobes 
rounded, three upper subequal, the lower narrower. 
Stamens as long as the corolla lobes or shorter ; anthers 
red-brown, bases of cells rounded. Capsule ellipsoid, 
about one-third longer than the sepals or less.—J. D. H. 
Fig. 1, Flower, pedicel and bract; 2, pedicel, bract, calyx and style ; ) 
3 and 4, anthers ; 5, ovary and disk :—A/l enlarged, 
