have offered any further remarks of our own. We have divided 
the refpettive fynonyms between the white and the blue flowered 
plants; the firft of which has been long known in European gar- 
dens; the latter only through the work of Rumpurus and the 
Herbarium of Commerson, and may after all, as far as we can 
fee, be a diftinét fpecies from the other. In the Bankfian Her- 
barium we found a fpecimen nearly allied to our plant, brought 
from China by Sir Gzorce Staunton, and which may 
probably be the plant of Lourzrro. Gartner profeffes 
to have had his. fpecimen from the Kew-Gardens, fo that 
his fynonym is certain. In the fecond edition of the Hortus 
Kewenfis, by a miftake very unufual in that excellent work, 
the Guapio us. 6, of the firft edition of Mrzitir’s Dic- 
tionary, has been adduced as an authority for the period. of 
the introduétion of our plant, when in fa€ that fynonym belongs 
to ANTHOLYzA éthipica; nor do we find our plant noticed 
in any of the editions of Mriuer’s work publifhed in his own 
life time. We fufpeé that there is no authority for the period 
of its introdudtion into this country; nor any certain one fof its 
habitat, unlefs we knew it to be of the fame {pecies with Rume 
Putus’s plant. Requires to be kept in the hot-houfe. G, 
