rest forming a sort of terminal panicle. Pedicels glandu- 
lar. Calyx tubular, quinquefid, glandular, the segments 
erect, brown, with white margins. Corolla hypocrateriform : 
the tube a little longer than the calyx, nearly white ; hmb 
of five, patent, ovate, bright-blue, segments. Stamens in- 
serted within the mouth of the tube, and scarcely exserted. 
Anthers pale blue. Germen oval, with three longitudinal 
furrows. Style as long as the tube of the corolla. Stigmas 
three, filiform, hairy. Capsule elliptical, with three deep 
furrows, indicating three lobes, enclosed within the persist- 
ent calyx, and equal in length with it, bursting by the 
centre of each lobe, into three valves, three celled ; cells 
with seven to eight angular, but not winged, seeds in each, 
arranged in two rows. 
Of the authors who have hitherto described this plant, 
Smiru alone has seen specimens which were cultivated at 
Sion House, in 1793, from seed which he supposed to be 
brought from some part of America. Pursn imagined it to 
be a native of America; but it was reserved for the indefa- 
tigable Mr. Dovetas to determine its exact locality. He 
discovered it in the woodless tracts, or sandy barrens on 
the Southern branches of the river Columbia, on the North- 
west coast of America, growing under the shade of PursHia 
( Tigarea. Pu.) tridentata and some species of ArTEMIsIA. 
In the garden of the Horticultural Society it thrives well, 
if cultivated among sandy peat, and blossoms in the early 
part of summer. It first flowered at Chiswick, in May, 1827. 
Fig. 1. Radical Leaf. 2. Flower. 3. Stamen. 4. Pistil. 5. Section of 
the Fruit. 6. Ripe Fruit surrounded by the Calyx. 7. Capsule removed from 
the Calyx.—More or less magnified. 
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