the services of an illustrious patron of science, N. ab 
Ostrowsky. 
The drawing of this noble plant was made from a 
specimen kindly communicated by F. Ducane Godman, 
Esq., F.R.S., in whose rich garden at South Lodge, 
Horsham, it flowered in June, 1895. It was one of eight 
stems about five feet high, borne on the same plant. 
Plants of it had flowered in the Rock Garden of Kew 
some years previously, and in many continental gardens. 
Descr.—A tall, strict, stout, erect, glabrous herb. oot 
tuberous. Stem four to five feet high, as thick as a goose- 
quill, quite simple, terete, pale green speckled with red- 
brown. Leaves in distant whorls of four to five, except 
the lowest, which are opposite, four to six inches long, 
ovate, acute, toothed, narrowed into a short winged petiole, 
pale green, subrugose above; midrib and five to six pairs 
of nerves prominent beneath. lowers three to six, in a 
terminal corymbiform raceme; pedicels stout, erect, terete, 
bracteate at the base and middle; bracts small, lanceolate, 
acute, withering. Flowers erect, very large, four inches 2s 
across the mouth of the corolla. Caiyz-tube turbinate, 
with a pair of oblong parallel depressions between the 
lobes ; lobes two inches long, linear-lanceolate, acuminate, 
green, spreading and recurved. Corolla broadly cam- 
panulate, pale lilac; tube two inches. long, terete, with 
three ribs opposite each lobe; lobes very short, broadly 
triangular, broader than long, spreading and recurved. 
Stamens as many as the calyx lobes, very short ; filaments 
short, flat, suddenly dilated into a fleshy, hairy, tumid 
base ; anthers very narrow, half an inch long, at le 
twisted. Ovary 5—9-celled, style very stout, short, pubes 
cent; stigmas 5-9, at first coherent in a fusiform column. 
Capsule turbinately pyriform, crowned with the calyx- 
lobes, dehiscing, by 10-24 lateral pores. Seeds ovoid, 
compressed, narrowly winged—J. D. A. 
Fig. 1, Flowers with corolla removed, the anthers withered, and tumid b: 
of the filaments shrunk ; 2, stamens :—Both enlarged. : ppt 
