that, in spite of its close general resemblance to 
C. plumbaginoides, the affinity of C. Willmottianum is 
really with C. minus, Stapf, and C. Griffithu, C. B. Clarke, 
which are shrubs. Miss Willmott informs us that of the 
two plants raised by her one has been grown at Warley 
in Essex, the other at Spetchley in Worcestershire, and 
that both are now shrubs five feet high. In both places, 
as at Kew, the treatment most suitable for C. plumbagi- 
noides is that best adapted for C. Willmottianum, which 
has proved equally hardy and equally easy to propagate. 
The two flower at the same time and in equal profusion, 
during the months of July to December. 
Description.—Shrub, freely branching; stems angular, — 
strigillose, often purplish; young shoots perulate, the 
scales firm, lanceolate or subulate-lanceolate. Leaves 
sessile, oblanceolate or elliptic-oblanceolate, acute or 
subacute, setose-mucronate, cuneately narrowed to the 
base, 14-2 in. long, }-# in. wide, green, sparingly harshly 
hairy above, more plentifully beneath, stiffly ciliate on 
the margin, sparingly and finely glandular-scurfy. //eads 
terminal, with often a few smaller in the uppermost 
axils; bracts lanceolate, acuminate, keeled, mucronate, 
rigidly ciliate, the outer 4} in. long. Calyx tubular, 
5-toothed, tube under 3} in. long, green with 5 white 
bands, teeth subulate, purplish. Corolla hypocrateri- 
form; tube rosy-red, ? in. long; limb bright-blue ; lobes 
truncate-obovate, mucronulate, + in. long, over 4 in. wide. 
Anthers purplish, under +/; in. long, tips shortly exserted. 
Styles whitish, ;!; in. long, quite exserted. 
Fig. 1, leaf and leaf-bud; 2, bud-seales; 3, flowers and bracts; 4 and 5, 
anthers ; 6, pistil :—all enlarged. 
