Edinburgh, in 1832, from Mr. Goldie of Ayr, where several 
specimens flowered in the cold frame and greenhouse in 
March and April, 1835. ¥ 
Descr. Whole plant perfectly glabrous. Leaves all ra- 
dical, oblong, or some of the smaller ones subrotund, mem- 
branaceous, flaccid, flat, or concave at the base, of a light, 
lively green, entire in the margin, or obscurely toothed, 
veined and slightly rugose ; mddle rib very strong, and 
forming a prominent keel behind ; petioles longer than the 
leaves and slender. Scape (in our cultivated plants eight 
inches to a foot high, in native specimens, according to 
Lepezour, from three inches to nearly a foot) erect, 
straight, slender, shining. Involucrum generally of three 
or four leaflets, but varying with the number of pedun- 
cles in the umbel, erect, adpressed, herbaceous, blunt or 
somewhat pointed, having at the base a colourless slightly 
spreading spur. Peduncles generally three or four, slender, 
at first lax and somewhat nodding, afterwards straight, 
erect, parallel, and very unequally elongated (from half an 
inch to two inches). Calyx oblong, with five connivent, 
short, nearly blunt teeth, herbaceous, furrowed between the 
lobes, in appearance very nearly resembling the involucre, 
but herbaceous and gibbous, not toothed at the base. Co- 
rolla, tube nearly twice as long as the calyx, yellowish, 
a bare angled, dilated at the apex ; limb (eight lines across) 
oblique, five-parted ; segments obcordate, two thirds of the 
length of the tube, reddish lilac, paler behind ; throat 
yellow. Stamens sessile in the dilated apex of the tube, 
oblong, yellow. Germen ovate, glabrous, green. Style 
straight, (shorter than the tube of the corolla in the speci- 
sl A ans ait reddish. Stigma globular, light-green. 
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