tugose, farinose beneath, tapering below into a short footstalk, 
red at the base. Scape often a foot long, moderately stout and 
thickened upwards, mealy, terminated by a dense globose head 
of flowers, bracteated at the base, the outer dracteas lanceolate, 
and forming a small, reflexed cnvolucre. Calyx sessile, mealy, 
large, campanulate, deeply 5-fid, the segments ovate, acumi- 
nate, subpatent. Corolla with the tube nearly twice as long as 
the calyx, almost white, mealy, a little inflated upwards, and 
transversely wrinkled ; Zimé of five, obcordate, spreading /odes, 
deep purple above, pale beneath. _Anthers small, nearly sessile, 
inserted below the middle of the tube. Ovary globose. Style 
filiform, as long as the tube. Stigma large, capitate. W. J. H. 
Cur. In habit this approaches our native species, P. farinosa 
and P. Scotica, and although it is a native of a high region and 
consequently subjected to a great degree of cold, yet, like other 
alpine species of the genus, it will probably require some slight 
protection in this climate, especially under our artificial mode of 
cultivation. During the past summer we had a number of 
plants growing very luxuriantly,—apparently too much so, for 
not one of them has yet shown any appearance of flowering. 
The present figure was drawn from a plant that had not been so 
well taken care of, and was stunted in its growth. Several of 
the vigorous plants suddenly died: it is therefore safest, till 
we become better acquainted with this species, to grow it in a 
frame during winter; and in summer to set it in a shady place, 
that it may escape the heat of the sun in the middle of the day. 
It appears to suffer by frequent watering overhead, the pot 
should, therefore, be placed in a pan, so as to receive water from 
the bottom. 7. 5 
Vig.1. Flower. 2. Corolla laid open :—magnified. 
