( 1912 ) 
SyMPHYTUM ORIENTALE. Eastern ComFrey. 
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Class and Order. 
PENTANDRIA Monoevwta. 
<iorelle limbus tubulato-ventricosus fauce clausa radiis 
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: Specific Character and Synonyms. 
Sympuytum orientale ; foliis lanceolato-ovatis undulatis in 
petiolum decurrentibus: floralibus porrectis, limbo co- 
rolle infundibuliformi acutiusculo. 
Sympnytum orientale ; foliis ovatis subpetiolatis. Sp. Pl. 
195. Willd. 1. p. T71. excluso synonymo Tournefortii. 
Sympnytum constantinopolitanum, Boraginis folio et facie, 
flore albo. Buxb. Cent..5. p. 36. t. 68. pessima. ~ 
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We have given a figure of Sympnyrum tawricum (No. 1787) 
by comparing which with the present, the difference will at — 
once be seen. ‘This is a taller plant, ess branched, leaves 
longer, more lance-shaped, and not at all cordate, as the 
lower ones in taurica are; we have said there, that the 
leaves of orientale were less undulated, but in that we were 
deceived by examining dried specimens. The floral leaves 
_ do. not spread horizontally as in tawricum, but stand upright 
_ or pointed forward. The racemes grow on shorter peduncles 
- and not in pairs as in that, and the flowers are more nume- 
rous and more crowded together ; the limb of the corolla does 
not widen suddenly from the tube in the form of a cup, with 
the points of the lacinie rolled back, but gradually widen 
from the tube upwards. The style in éauricum scarcely 
equals the corolla, but is exserted considerably beyond it in 
orientale. Flowers in the spring, but somewhat later than- 
fauricum. Is quite hardy. Native of Turkey. 
Communicated by Messrs. Wuirtey, Brame, and Mitye, 
of the Fulham Nursery. | 
