stone on the surface and lightly watered, in a cool house 
at Sawley Hall, Ripon, until the following summer, when 
it was transferred to an open alley roofed with glass. 
Under this treatment the plant throve well, and in 1915 
it was possible to divide it, one of the plants so obtained 
being presented to Kew in February, 1916. From this 
example, which was grown at Kew in a pot of ordinary 
loam, and flowered there in a cool frame in June and 
July, 1916, the figure of C. Ephesia here given was pre- 
pared. A plant at Sawley Hall flowered synchronously 
with the example at Kew. While in flower the Kew 
plant was carefully pollinated, but failed to set any 
seeds; soon after flowering it died. Sir John Barran 
informs us that the plant which flowered at Sawley Hall 
did the same, but in this case a few seeds were developed 
and saved. There appears to be no record of any 
previous introduction of this species to English gardens ; 
whether its permanent establishment can be effected 
seems as yet doubtful. 
Drscription.— Herb, perennial, uniformly white-tomentose ; stem 1-13 ft. 
high, up to } in. thick, decumbent. Leaves more or less lobulate; radical 
4-8 in. long, lyrate, with oblong obtuse entire or bluntly toothed decurrent 
lateral segments decreasing in size downwards, the upper segments 3—3 in. 
long, }-3? in. wide, elliptic and bluntly toothed, the terminal segment 3-21 
in. long, 3-13 ia. wide, ovate or elliptic-ovate, obtuse, bluntly toothed or bluntly 
lobed and toothed; upper stem leaves sessile, }-13 in. long, narrow oblong, 
lanceolate or ovate-lanceolate, acute, toothed. Flowers in secund racemes or 
panicles ; pedicels 3-3 in. long. Calyx 5-lobed, its appendages as long as the 
tube; lobes 2-3 in. long, deltoid acuminate. Corolla 13-1} in. long, 14-13 in. 
across, wide campanulate; lobes 3 in. long, wide ovate, subacute, recurved, 
glabrous within, white tomentose outside, deep blue. Stamens white; filaments 
with wide ovate, dilated, ciliated bases, Ovary shortly broadly obconic, 
5-locular; stigmas 5, revolute, green, 
Tas. 8715.—Fig. 1, stamen; 2, apex of style and stigmas :—both enlarged. 
