founded it with the Ancnusa rosea of BresersTein, admira- 
bly figured in the Cent. Plant. Ross. Merid. t. 43, but that 
has much smaller, deep rose-coloured flowers, sharper teeth 
to the calyx, and acuminated leaves. A. versicolor is an 
inhabitant of the Caucasian Alps, about Chinalung and 
Kasbek. In the Glasgow Botanic Garden it flowers in 
July. ; 
Descr. Root annual. Stem weak and decumbent, 
branched, slightly angular, and moderately hispid. Leaves 
slightly hispid, entire, the radical ones spathulate, those of 
the stem oblong, the uppermost or floral leaves broader, 
inclining to ovate, all rather obtuse at the extremity. 
Racemes elongated, leafy. Flowers arising from the axil 
of each leaf or bractea, on a very short stalk. Calyx 
five-toothed, oblong, erect, at length singularly inflated and 
deflexed, slightly five-angled. Corolla large, salver-shaped 
rather than funnel-shaped : tube as long as the calyx : limb 
five-lobed, spreading, at first deep rose-red, then purple, at 
length blue with pale yellow rays. A little below the 
mouth of the tube are five small, rounded scales, hairy 
at the margin. Stamens with their filaments very short ; 
the anthers oblong, dark coloured. Nuts (immature) five, 
ovate, compressed, much wrinkled, fixed by their base. 
Fig. 1. Section of the Calyx with young Fruit. 2, Corolla laid open. 
3. Scale of the Corolla. 4. Stamen :—magnified. 
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