inch long, while its flowers are somewhat smaller than those 
in Poiret’s plant with the corolla less deeply lobed. But if 
the description given by Hooker be accurate, and there is 
no justification for the formation of a contrary conclusion, 
the two plants belong not only to different species, but to 
distinct genera. In the plant named /. anchusaefolium by 
Poiret, the fruit at first is divided into a pair of two-seeded 
mericarps, each of which finally divides into a couple of 
one-seeded nutlets; just before this final division, and 
marking the plane in which it occurs, we find a groove 
round the fruit. In the plant named by him Tournefortia 
heliotropioides, the fruit is described by Hooker as a four- 
stoned berry. Dr. Giirke, accepting the general but 
erroneous belief that Poiret’s plant is the same as Hooker’s, 
and further adopting the description of the fruit given by 
Hooker as accurate, has transferred Tournefortia  heliotro- 
pioides, Hook., to the genus Cochranea as C. anchusaefolia, 
Giirke. Hooker’s original description, however, points 
rather to his plant being, as he originally said, a Tourne- 
fortia, But, however this may be, the popular belief which 
confuses Hooker’s plant with that now figured, is one that 
cannot be sustained. For the material from which our 
illustration has been prepared we are indebted to Miss 
Willmott, in whose garden at Warley Place it flourishes 
freely. It also thrives well and flowers profusely at Kew, 
but requires to be protected from cold in winter, 
_Descriprion.—Herb, perennial; stems erect, 4-angled, 
hispid. Leaves alternate, lanceolate or linear-lanceolate, 
membranous, entire, undulate, acute or subacute, sessile, 
about 24 in. long, 3-2 in. wide, scabrid above, hispid on 
the nerves beneath. Calya 5-partite, viscidly hairy, +1; in. 
long; lobes linear. Corolla violet, funnel-shaped, 5-lobed, 
lobes rounded; limb about 4 in. across, tube } in. long, 
villous within above the stamens, Stamens 5, sessile, 
inserted near the base of the tube; anthers under 1 lin. 
long, triangular-cordate, basifixed, Ovary small, glabrous ; 
stigma peltate, conic at the tip, sessile. 
Fig. 1, portion of a leaf; 2, flower; 3, section of cal aa a 
laid open; 5 and 6, anthers :—all enlarged. on of calyx, with pistil; 4, corolla, 
