HERBACEOUS PLANTS 



ACONITUM HEMSLEYANUM, Pritz. 



A climbing Aconite, a hardy herbaceous perennial, with curious bulbils 

 in the axils of the leaves and bracts, as in many lilies. 



The flowers are of a rich deep blue colour, large and showy. 



Living roots from Central China in 1901 failed to grow, but a better fate 

 awaited a second consignment collected in 1903, and plants flowered at 

 Coombe in the summer of 1905. 



ACONITUM SCAPOSUM, Franch., var. PYEAMIDALE. 



A strong-growing hardy herbaceous perennial with foliage typical of 

 the genus and pyramidal spikes of dark blue flowers crowded on the 

 upper two-thirds of a scape 2 to 2| ft. in height. 



The flowers consist of a long blue spur with little or no hood and the 

 small petals are whitish tipped with green. 



It was raised from seed collected in Central China in 1901, and first 

 flowered at Coombe Wood in August 1904. 



ADENOPHOKA CAPILLARIS, Hemsl. 



Hemsley in Jour. Linn. Soc. vol. xxvi. p. 10. 



A hardy herbaceous perennial about 2 to 2| ft. high, with loose, graceful 

 panicles of blue campanula-like flower. Mr. Hemsley (I.e. supra) states, 

 " A very distinct and beautiful species remarkable for the exceeding 

 slenderness of the pedicels, the narrow somewhat inflated corolla and the 

 very thick tubular disk." 



Discovered in the Patung district, Central China, introduced to 

 cultivation through Wilson from the same locality and first flowered in 

 the summer of 1905. 



ADENOPHOEA POLYMOEPHA, Ledeb. 



Gard. Chron. 1903, vol. xxxiv. p. 187. 



This hardy herbaceous plant of the Campanula family of a height of 

 4 to 5 ft., has numerous dark blue bell-shaped blossoms, introduced from 

 China, and first flowered in the Eoyal Gardens, Kew, in September 1903. 



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