Frasera Walteri. 105 
Tue superb plant which is the subject of this chapter, was dedi- 
cated by Walter to Mr. John Fraser,* and is the only species of the 
genus known at present. The root is biennial, large, tuberous and 
fleshy, and of a yellow colour. The stalk is strong, succulent, and 
fleshy, from eight to ten feet high, nearly square and furrowed, send- 
ing of whorls of large, deep-green glabrous leaves, at intervals of six 
or eight inches, to about half its length, and smaller leaves and 
flowering branches in whorls to the top. “ The lower leaves are ob- 
long, lanceolate, entire, membranous, delicately veined, from six to 
eight inches long, and from two to three wide ; upper leaves narrow, 
lanceolate, small.’’+ | ; 
The leaves according to Pursh, Mr. Elliot, and the late Dr. Bar- 
ton,t are occasionally opposite. They generally grow to the number 
of four or eight together, are lanceolate or sometimes oblong, 
ovate, and acute. The flowers are aggregated in clusters; the 
segments of the corolla are lanceolate, greenish-yellow, or cream- 
white, finely speckled with purple, and having a pubescent or ciliated 
oval gland in the middle of each petal, which is green internally, 
and brown on the edges. Those glands are conspicuous on both 
sides of the petals, as represented in the front and back views of the 
* An indefatigable nursery and seedsman, to whose exertions the gardens of Eng- 
land, and particularly of London, are indebted for many rare American plants, 
{ Elliot. + Flora Virg. 
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