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trigonous apiculate about 7 mm. long and broad patent 

 and recurving, traversed by the antipetaline bands outside, 

 deep royal-blue inside; folds about 2 mm. long 4"5 mm. 

 broad slightly paler blue with a triangular central obtuse 

 tooth and slight erosion at the sides. Staminal hlaments 

 free from about 2 8 cm. above base of corolla, free portion 

 about 12 cm. long pale violet and spotted, narrowly fringed ; 

 anthers sagittate about 2*8 mm. long. Ovary about 1"4 cm. 

 long; stipe about 2"7 cm. long; style as much as 6 mm. 

 long its stigmatiferous branches recurved 2 mm. long. 



W. Szechwan. Wilson. 



G. Veitchiorion is a fine garden plant, although not, I 

 think, of the merit of G. Farreri and G. sino-ornata. It 

 was introduced to cultivation, as Hemsley informs us, by 

 Messrs. Veitch, who raised it from seed collected by E. H. 

 Wilson in W. Szechwan. When describing it as a species 

 distinct from G. ornata, Wall., Hemsley identified it as the 

 plant which Franchet described under the name G. ornaia, 

 var. obtusifolia. Subsequently W. Irving gave it the name 

 G. ornata var. Veitchii. 



Without doubt Hemsley was right in giving the plant 

 specific rank and separating it from G. ornata, Wall., which 

 is a difierent plant. But the name G. ornata somehow got 

 attached to it, and it received an Award of Merit at the 

 Royal Horticultural Society on August 31, 1909, when 

 shown by Messrs. Veitch under the name G. ornata. I 

 may state here definitely that this plant so laureated was 

 not the same as that which under the same name received 

 an Award of Merit in 1915. Two species have been 

 exhibited under the name G. ornata and each has received 

 an Award of Merit. Neither of them is G. ornata, Wall. 

 The plant shown in 1909 is G. Veitckiorum, that in 1915 

 is G. sino-ornata. 



G. Veitchiorum may be distinguished at a glance from 

 the three late-flowering species which I have already 

 mentioned — G. Farreri, G. Latvrencei, and G. sino-ornata 

 — by its habit and foliage. It is a stifier more compact 

 grower, and the stolon early leaves are ovate or elliptic or 

 oblong, contracted at base of lamina and blunt at the apex. 

 The stolons themselves are thick with short internodes. 

 The plant is, to our experience at Edinburgh, by no means 



