continued to bloom all summer. Mr. Watson informs 
me that the plant here figured produced eight scapes 
of flowers, and in fact flowered itself to death, as 
did several other specimens; and that many of the 
corollas were six-lobed. This tendency to overflowering 
under cultivation must be constitutional, for Messrs. 
Lemoine and Sons, of Nancy, had a plant which bore 
twelve coeval scapes. The native Specimens are quite 
small, with leaves two to three inches long, and a solitary 
slender scape with few flowers in a whorl ; whereas in the 
Kew plant the scape is two feet high, almost as thick as a 
goose quill, of a dark green, and sometimes spotted with 
black.—J. D. H. 
‘Fig. 1, Calyx and pistil; 2, portion of corolla laid open showing the oral 
annulus and stamens; 3 and 4, front and back view of anthers ; 5, ovary, 
style and stigma :—q// enlarged, 
