have attained, and which were brought by Mrs. Thiselton 

 Dyer from the Simplon aud Saasthal Valleys in 1892, and 

 flowered in the rock-work of the Royal Gardens in June, 



1893. 



Descr.— Quite glabrous. Stems very slender, erect from 

 a perennial root, 2-8 inches high, nearly simple except at 

 the tip, leafy all the way up, few-flowered. Leaves all 

 cauline (except no doubt in seedling or very young states) 

 about an inch long by one-tenth of an inch broad, 

 narrowly linear or slightly enlarging upwards, remotely 

 toothed. Flowers nodding, pale bright violet-blue, ivith 

 five translucent spots between the base of the corolla lobes. 

 Calyx-tube very short, turbinate, ribbed ; lobes subulate, 

 horizontally spreading. Corolla two-thirds of an inch long, 

 exactly campanulate, 5-angled, divided for one-third way 

 into 5 cordately ovate acuminate suberect lobes, with in- 

 curved margins at the base, and rising into an interposed 

 mucro between the adjacent lobes ; the interspaces hence 

 represent a cordiform perforation of the corolla tube. 

 Filaments very short, broad, ciliate; anthers linear-oblong. 

 Style short, stout; stigma cylindric, with 3 recurved lobes. 

 —J. D. H. 



Fig. 1, Flower with the corolla removed ; 2, portion of corolla laid open ; 

 o, transversa section of the ovary -.—All enlarged. 



