hardy, and during the summer of 1913 formed a somewhat 
loose plant about 6 feet high with erect shoots and with 
inflorescences which are nearly always compound, many- 
flowered and compact, in full blossom from the opening of 
September to the middle of November. Judging from the 
experience at Kew, S. wliginosa is likely to be a serviceable 
plant for the herbaceous border. 
Derscriprion.—Herb; stems up to 8 ft. high, branched, 
bluntly 4-angled, sulcate, glandular, adpressed-pubescent. 
Leaves oblong-lanceolate, acute, base long-cuneate, gradually 
diminishing in size upwards, up to 34 in. long, 3 in. wide, deep- 
serrate, green, membranous, glabrous above, adpressed pubes- 
cent on the nerves and dotted with numerous black glands 
beneath ; Jateral nerves about 7 on each side of the midrib, 
and like the latter slightly impressed above, raised beneath, 
the uppermost leaves sessile, those below with petioles 
up to ¢ in. long. Inflorescence terminal, compound ; racemes 
spiciform, compact, the terminal up to 4} in. long, lateral 
24 in. long, long-peduncled, Verticillasters 7-20-flowered ; 
bracts ovate, long-acuminate, ciliate, soon deciduous, } in. 
Jong including the tip. Calye campanulate, pubescent, 
glandular; lobes ovate-triangular, the posterior slightly 
2-3-toothed, lateral with acuminate tips. Corolla blue, 
tube under } in. long, very narrow at the base, anterior li 
3-lobed, 4 in. long, nearly as wide, posterior lip 2-lobed, 
about } in. long, } in. wide. Anthers 1 lin. long, filaments 
as long with the connective bent backwards, 2 lin. long. 
Ovary under 1 lin. long; style, including the style-arms, 
nearly 3 in. long, glabrous, 2-lobed, the upper lobe recurved, 
in. long, twice as long as the straight anterior lobe, 
Fig. 1, section of stem; 2, portion of undersurface of leaf ; 3, calyx, laid open 
and showing pistil; 4, corolla-tube, laid open; 5, anther; 6, upper portion of 
style, with stigma :—all enlarged. 
