sented was sent for figuring by Messrs. Backhouse, of York, 
who flowered it in June last. 
Descr. Root perennial, bearing many short branches. 
Leaves chiefly radical, from linear-lanceolate to elliptic-oval, 
obtuse acute or acuminate, coriaceous, quite entire, nerveless, 
glabrous. Mowering-stems six to twelve inches high, erect, 
with two or more pairs of linear-lanceolate or oblong leaves. 
Panicle of three or more whorls of shortly pedicelled flowers ; 
bracts herbaceous, ovate-lanceolate, acute. Flower half to 
two-thirds of an inch long, horizontal or drooping. Calyx 
small, glandular, pubescent or ciliate; segments subulate- 
lanceolate, recurved.  Corolla-tube moderately inflated, pale 
reddish-purple ; throat open, not folded ; limb 2-lipped, bright 
blue purple ; upper lip of two shortly oblong rounded lobes ; 
under of three shortly broadly obovate lobes. laments 
glabrous ; anther-cells divergent. Style hairy —/. D. H. 
Fig. 1, Flower; 2, base of corolla-tube, stamens and style :—all magnified. 
