[Plate 64.] 
THE AZURE PENTSTEMON. 
(PENTSTEMON AZUREUS.) 
A hardy Herhaceous Plant from California, belonging to the Order o/Lixariads, 
*pccilxc Cfjarartrr. 
SHE AZURE PENTSTEMON.— Quite smooth, and some- 
ermost 
what glaucous, 
stalked, the upper ones sessile, somewhat cordate, lanceo- 
late, acute, occasionally split at the point, or incised at 
the edge. Racemes rod^Iike, Flower-stalks opposite, one- 
flowered, furnished with bracts. Sterile filament smooth. 
PENTSTEMON AZUREUS; glabcrrimus, glaucescens, 
foliis oppositis iuferioribus petiolatis oblongis superioribus 
sessilibus Bubcordato-Ianceolatis acutis nunc apice bifidis 
aut a latere incisis, racemis virgatis, peduncuHs oppositis 
bracteatis uniflorig, filamento stcrili glabro. 
Pentstemon azureus : Bentliam, Flantm Harturrjiana, p. 327, no. 1879, Jmirnal of norlicultural Society, vol. v., p. 144. 
Our Volmne i,, no. 105, 
rjHE remarks at No. 105 of our First Volume have prepared our readers for a kuowledge of tins 
handsome Pereunial, which proves to deserve more attention at the hand of the gardener than 
was anticipated. 
fme tuft 
autumnal months rods of bright azure blue flowers about 2 feet high. 
Mr. Bentham compares it with P. /leferojj/i^llusj than wliich it is a very much finer species, readilv 
distinguished by its blue flowers, growing singly and almost without stalks, in the axils of the upper 
leaves. It is also to be remarked that the foliage, although usually perfectly entire, exhibits every 
now and then a tendency to acquire divisions such as are represented in the accompanying Plate • 
li 
, 
jl 
u 
t ' 
r 
I 
■ ^- -■-■-^ 
X 
