appears to be as easily managed as the other members 
of the section Aptera, of which several are already in 
cultivation. The chief distinctive feature of G. gracili- 
pes is the length of its slender pedicels, which arise 
singly in the axils of the uppermost leaves of the 
flowering shoot. The lateral position of the flowering 
shoot this species shares with G. dahurica; the spatha- 
ceous division of the calyx on one side it shares not 
only with G. Fetisowii, but with G. straminea, Maxim., 
and some other members of the section Aptera. At the 
same time this latter character is not universal in the 
section ; several of the species, in addition to G. dahurica, 
have a normally tubular calyx. 
DeEscripPtion.— Herb, perennial, with barren rosettes, 
and at the same time, erect or ascending terete glabrous 
flowering stems. Leaves of the rosette narrow-lanceolate, 
acute; of the stem linear-lanceolate, acute, 1-nerved, 
opposite and stem-clasping at the base, up to 2 in. long, 
1{-15 in. wide. Flowers solitary in the axils of the 
uppermost leaves, pedicels glabrous, about 2 in. long. 
Caly« truncate, di tinctly 3-5-toothed, split on one side, 
over } in. long. Corolla purplish-blue; tube gradually 
enlarging upwards, 11 in. long, ;'; in. wide at the base, 
limb 4 in. across: lobes ovate-triangular, } in. long, 
+ in. wide, spreading, alternating with 5 ovate-triangular 
folds, } in. long. Stamens free, equal; filaments de- 
current on the corolla-tube to the base ; anthers straw- 
coloured, y'y in. long. Ovary subsessile, cylindric, 1} in. 
long including the style which is 1} in. long, very narrow, 
glabrous ; stigma 2-lobed, its lobes very short. 
Fig. 1, calyx, laid open, and pistil; 2 and 8, anthers :—all enlarged. 
