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bright lilac, obovate ; style branches I J in. long to crest 

 tips ; crests deltoid, toothed. The flowers, I think, have 

 some fragrance but they are described as scentless. Is 

 native of Central and South Europe. 



Var. australis (Tod.). This Mr Baker places under 

 Lpallida, but my plant, the authenticity of which is hardly 

 open to doubt, is certainly a variety of /. germanica. It 

 differs from the type only in having claret-purple standards, 

 which are slightly longer, a pale yellow beard, and much 

 less white in front of the style. Its bracts are not so 

 scarious as in /. pallida. It is a handsome plant, and I 

 have it also under the name atroviolacea. 



Var. Siwas, Post. Card. Chron., June 4, 1887, ? 

 739. Sir Michael Foster considers this worthy of a 

 varietal name because of the colouration, together with 

 the very marked characters of the ripe capsule. It was 

 found south of Trebizond, near Kalahissar, in the pro- 

 vince of Siwas, and hence its name. The leaves differ 

 from those of ordinary germanica in being narrower, less 

 stout, and of more yellowish green colour. The tube is 

 purple, the falls of indigo-purple, and the standards almost 

 an Oxford blue. The capsule is trigonal with sharp 

 edges, and very short, being not much longer than broad. 

 The flowers I find are slightly fragrant, and the claw of 

 standard is distinctly hairy in the channel. 



Var. Amas, Foster. The flowers of this variety, un- 

 like those of the type, are slightly fragrant. The beard 

 is yellow ; the style-arms, except along the ridge and the 

 crests, are white. There is no V-shaped space between 

 the crests as in the variety Siiuas. It is sometimes 

 known as macrantha. 



In Mr Barr's selection there is a variety, alba ; Kharput 

 (asiatica), with rich blue standards and falls of violet 

 purple, described as twice as large as the type ; and 

 " Purple King," a full purple and very effective. In 

 The Garden of June 30, 1900, a form is figured under the 



