Tas. 6629. 
SCROPHULARIA carysanrua. 
Native of Asia Minor. 
Nat. Ord. ScrRoPHULARINEX.—Tribe CHELONEZ. 
Genus Scropuuaria, Linn; (Benth. et Hook.f. Gen. Pl. vol. ii. p. 937.) 
Scropuutarta (Venilia), chrysantha; laxe patentim glanduloso-pilosa, inferne 
oes minusve lanata, caule robusto folioso, foliis ovato- v. orbiculari-cordatis 
obulatis et serrulatis convexis rugosis floralibus amplis, cymis ad apicem 
caulis dense congestis multifloris, pedunculis foliis floralibus brevioribus, 
— ealyce brevioribus, calycis glanduloso-puberuli laciniis oblongo- 
anceolatis immarginatis, corolla aurea inflata ovoidea ore contracto, lobulis 
os subzequalibus truncatis, filamentis exsertis styloque puberulis gla- 
ratisve. 
S. chrysantha, Jaub. et Spach Ill. Plant. Orient. t. 221; Boiss. Fl. Orient. vol. iv. 
p- 390. 
S. minima, Benth. in DC. Prodr. vol. xii. p. 303, non Bieberst. 
S. congesta, Stev. Enum. Taur. p. 267. 
The genus Scrophularia, containing nearly a hundred 
real or supposed species, presents so little worthy the 
attention of horticulturists, that the present is the first 
species that has ever found a place in a volume of either 
the Botanical Magazine or Register, or indeed of any 
British or foreign work devoted to the illustration of 
garden plants. 
Asa species S. chrysantha is closely allied to the European 
S. vernalis, L., differing in habit and in the dense flowered 
cyme of much larger golden flowers. It was first published 
by Bentham in De Candolle’s ‘ Prodromus,” under the 
name of 8S. minima, Bieberst., from specimens sent from 
the Caucasus by Prescott. Subsequently Jaubert and 
Spach pointed out that Bieberstein’s S. minima was a 
different plant, much smaller, with a close viscid pubescence 
and red flowers, and they proposed for this the name it 
now bears. Its native countries are the Caucasus and 
Armenia, at Teflis, and Erzeroom. Our plant flowers freely 
in a cool frame at Kew, in March, as a pot-plant. 
JUNE lst, 1882, 
