corolla, whereas in G. septemfida they are large and prominent, 
and furnished with long cilia, giving a densely fringed character 
to the mouth of the flower. Our charming ‘species is a native 
of northern China (the exact locality is not stated), and was sent 
by Mr. Fortune, in 1849, to Messrs. Standish and Noble of the 
Bagshot Nursery. Showing a disposition to flower, as it did, late 
in the autumn, it was kept in a greenhouse, and the blossom 
expanded in December 1853, when our drawing was made. It 
will, there can be little doubt, prove hardy. 
Descr. From the collum or neck of the root two or three 
stems appear, erect or ascending, terete, glabrous, simple. Leaves 
in rather distant pairs, opposite, the lowest small and ovate, the 
rest an inch and a half or nearly two inches long, lanceolate, 
glabrous, three-nerved, the margin scabrous, the base tapering, 
and united with that of the opposite leaf. /Vowers axillary, soli- 
tary, sessile, the ultimate ones, from the approximation of the 
leaves, glomerate, large, very handsome, sessile, generally accom- 
panied by two small leaves at the base. Calyx quinquefid ; the 
tube campanulate ; segments of the /imd linear, acuminate, and re- 
curved. Coro//a infundibuliform, slightly ventricose: limd of 
five, spreading, cordato-ovate lobes, intensely deep blue, as is the 
inside of the tube, and equally spotted with white. Scales of the 
corolla short, blunt, three-toothed, scarcely projecting beyond the 
base of the sinus of the lobes; teeth unequal. Stamens five, in- 
serted below the middle of the corolla, quite cluded. Anthers 
free, lear. Ovary subcylindrical, a little inflated in the middle. 
Styles, or rather stigmas, two, linear, recurved. 
Fig. 1. Corolla laid open. 2. Pistil :—smagnified. 
