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plants which flowered with Sir Trevor Lawrence in 1905. 

 The plant came from Max Leichtlin, who raised it from 

 seed collected by M. Jules Bocherel about Lake Baikal, as 

 Burkill informs us. A plant from the same source was 

 received at the same date at, and its progeny still flourishes 

 in, the Ro3^al Botanic Garden, Edinburgh. The history of 

 the plant figured in the Botanical Magazine (1907),^ t. 

 8140, under the name G. ornata, Wall., is that of Sir Trevor 

 Lawrence's and of the Edinburgh plant, and the figure is 

 that of G. Lawrencei. It is not G. ornata, Wall. I do not 

 understand the reference under the figure to Walton's 

 specimens. These were described by Burkill under the 

 name of G. Waltoni^ — a species with a dimidiate-spatha- 

 ceous calyx altogether diflerent from the type of G. 

 ornata. 



G. Lawrencei is a pretty species, most like G. Farreri 

 of those I speak of here. It is, however, a more slender 

 plant, with thinner stolons and much narrower leaves — they 

 are almost thread-like at times — and they do not recurve 

 in the manner of those of G. Farreri. It is very sensitive 

 to atmospheric states, and is therefore at a disadvantage 

 with G. Farreri. The flowers are only open in brightest 

 sunshine and in a warm dry atmosphere. The flower has 

 always a purple-red thin stalk, about a centimeter or more 

 in length and little over a millimeter in diameter, and it 

 gives the impression of being scarcely strong enough to 

 support erect the large flower. The calyx-tube is shorter 

 than in G. Farreri, as are also the thin almost filiform lobes 

 which remain erect and do not recurve. The expanded 

 mouth of the corolla-tube is only about 2 centimeters across 

 — in G. Farreri it is 3 cm. — and the lobes and folds do not 

 reflex to the extent they do in G. Farreri, so that the mouth 

 has not the broad trumpet-form of that species. The throat 

 is not pure white as there but lined with blue, and the blunt 

 lobes with the folds, which are somewhat erose, are of a 

 paler sky-blue tint. If it would only open its flowers, 

 which are profusely produced, — as freely as in G. Farreri 

 — it would more closely rival that species for favour. 

 G. Laivrencei is like G. Farreri a long flowerer — opening 



' See also liard. (Jluon., 3, xl (llJOfi), \8-2. 



''■ Burkill in .Joiirn. Proc. Asial. Soc. lieiig , n.?. ii (190G), 31U. 



