Tan SLT, 
REHMANNIA ANGULATA. 
China. 
_ ScROPHULARTIACEAE. Tribe DIGITALIEAE. 
ReHMAnntiA, Libosch ; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen, Plant. vol. ii. p. 960. 
Rehmannia angulata, Hemsl. in Journ. Linn. Soc. vol. xxvi. p. 193; Gard. 
Chron, 1908, vol. xxxiii. p, 290, cum fig. p. 296; species &. glutinosae, 
Libosch, majus affinis, ab ea tamen differt partibus omnibus majoribus, 
foliis grosse dentato-lobatis et floribus roseo-purpureis. 
Tlerba b'ennis vel perennis, glanduloso-hirsuta, statura valde variabilis, exem- 
plaria sylvestria 15 cm. ad 1 m. alta, culta canlibus interdum usque ad 
2m. longis. Caules teretes. subsimplices. /v/ia alterna, tenuia, papyracea, 
ovato-oblonga, petiolata, inferiora usque ad 15 em. longa, sursum gradatim 
minora, suprema parva, bracteiformia, sessilia, inferiora irregulariter 
duplicato-dentato-lobata, superiora paucidentata, dentibus acutissimis, 
omnia glabrescentia. lores rosei, fauce luteo-tincti et rubro-maculati, 
axillares, solitarii, pedunculati, nutantes, 9-10 cm. longi, pedunculis 
longiores. Calyx glanduloso-hirsutus, campanulatus, circiter 3 cm. longus, 
alte 5-lobatus, lobis acuminatis acutis inaequalibus, postico longiore. 
Corolla declinata; tubus latus, ventricosus, curvatus, intus basin versus 
puberulus et fauce pilis paucis longis instructus; limbus bilabiatus, 
6-7 cm, diametro, lobis rotundatis divergentibus. Stamina didynamia, 
inclusa, fere basilaria; filamenta filiformia, 1-5-2 cm. longa; antherae per 
paria approximatae, loculis divergentibus. Ovarium glabram, imperfecte 
2-loculare, loculis multiovulatis; stylus filiformis, inclusus, stigmate 
inaeyualiter bilabiato. Capsula non visa.—. glutinosa, Libosch, var. 
angulata, D. Oliv. in Hook. Ic. Pl. t. 1589. 
This is another of the numerous ornamental Chinese 
plants introduced by Messrs. James Veitch & Sons, through 
Mr. EK. H. Wilson. It is an exceedingly free-growing 
subject, and seedlings exhibit a considerable amount of 
variation in colour, Dried specimens of it were at first 
associated, as a variety, with the original F. chinensis, 
Fisch. & Mey. (B. M. 1838, t. 3653), which is the same as 
R. glutinosa, Libosch ; but fully developed cultivated plants 
present a very different appearance. Unfortunately it is 
not so hardy as the older one, which inhabits the northern 
province of Chihli in the neighbourhood of Peking, whereas 
fi, angulata is a native of the central provinces of Hupeh 
and Kweichau. There are several other species of this 
genus, which is confined to the Chinese region. 2. rupes- 
tris, Hemsl. (B. M. 1891, t. 7191) is very different, and 
should perhaps be separated generically, 
Freervuary, 1908, 
