Descr. Root perennial. Stem upright, rigid, from three 

 to six feet high, clothed with lanceolate leaves quite entire 

 or slightly toothed. Spike, or rather spike-like raceme, ter- 

 minal, two or even three feet long, gradually tapering to the 

 top ; simple, or having a few short branches towards the base. 

 Flowers crowded together, but solitary, on short peduncles, 

 supported each by a single, lanceolate, marginated, reflexed 

 bracte, of which the lower ones are much longer than the 

 calyx, the upper ones shorter. Calyx five-cleft ; the three 

 upper segments erect, the two lower applied close to the 

 corolla, all of them oval, very obtuse, and edged with a 

 white membranaceous margin. Corolla drooping, dull yellow 

 on the outside, within streaked with rusty purple lines : tube 

 short, contracted : faux suddenly swelling, bellied : limb five- 

 cleft : two upper lacinite very short, nearly obsolete, rolled 

 back ; two lateral somewhat longer, acute ; lowermost long, 

 blunt, hollowed, thinly bearded. Stamens shorter than corolla ; 

 filaments inserted into the tube of the corolla, equal, thickened 

 at the base, sigmoid : anthers parallel : lobes divaricate. 

 Germen superior, conical, bilocular ; style the length of the 

 stamens ; stigma simple. 



Of all the figures above quoted, the only one that repre- 

 sents even the habit of our plant, is that of Rivinus. 



A hardy perennial, generally perishing after flowering; 

 very shewy, from its stature and long tapering spike of 

 flowers. Native of Italy. An old inhabitant of our gardens, 

 being cultivated by Gerard above two hundred years ago. 

 Our drawing was taken from a specimen, communicated by 

 John Walker, Esq. of Arno's-Grove ; our description from 

 one communicated many years ago, by Thomas Furley 

 Forster, Esq. 



