the length of the calyx, red: limb equal: lacinie rounded, 
quite entire, violet-purple, more or less mixed with red: faux 
closed with arched villous scales. Anthers sessile, erect, 
alternating with the scales. Germens four, but one or two, 
sometimes three of them, abortive: style shorter than the 
tube: stigma capitate. | 
Ancuusa ttalica, officinalis, and angustifolia, seem to be 
much confused in their synonymy. From the first our plant © 
is distinguished, by its smaller size, and more especially by 
the scales of the faux being only villous and not bearded with 
pencils of hairs ; from officinalis, by the doubie less-crowded 
racemes, in which Rerzivus remarks, that both ¢éalica and 
angustifolia agree, and by the fruit-bearing calyx being 
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upright. 
np e figure of Zanont, referred to as a synonym of an- 
gustifolia in the Hortus Kewensis, corresponds well with 
our plant upon the whole, though the calyx is represented 
as not nearly so deeply divided, and the racemes are entirely 
without leaves or bractes, except the two at their base: and 
the excellent one in the Flora Greca evidently represents the . 
present species. . 
Native of the South of Europe. Flowers in May and 
June. Propagated by seeds, being only biennial. Com- 
municated by Mr. Josrpu Knicur, of the Exotic Nursery, 
King’s-Road, Chelsea. 
