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branches. LEavEs opposite, connate at the base, almost perfoliate, 
lower ones ovate and acute, upper ones linear-lanceolate and very 
acute, ultimately becoming subulate bracts at the bifurcation of the 
peduncles. INFLORESCENCE panicled. FLOowers very large, hand- 
some, spreading, of a lilac colour with a dark brown or deep purple 
eye in the centre. Prpicexs long, furnished with two bracts. CaLyx 
deeply five-parted, segments erect, long, narrow, awl-shaped. Corot- 
LA with a short funnel-shaped tube, and large expanded limb, seg- 
ments obovate, bluntly pointed. Stamens five, filaments as long as 
. the tube of the corolla, anthers large, yellow. Ovary oblong, 
equalling the style in length, somewhat club-shaped; stigma of two 
large spreading plates, clothed with a velvet pubescence. 
PopuLar AND GeocrapuHicaL Notice. This truly superb annual 
was found near San Felipe de Austin, in Texas, by Drummond, and 
was one of the last contributions to our gardens of that zealous col- 
lector, whose memorandum respecting it deserves to be recorded. He 
accompanied the seeds with the remark, “not excelled in beauty by 
any plant;” an opinion which when in full flower it amply justifies. 
It appears to have a considerable geographical range in the warmer 
parts of North America, as it has been found at Nouveau Leon, Monte- 
rey, Mexico, and on the great Salt River, Arkansas. The majority of 
the species of the genus Lisianthus are, however, natives of the tropical 
regions of America. Like most of the genera in this order they are 
very bitter, and may be useful when bitter remedies are needed. R. D. 
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INTRODUCTION; WHERE GROWN; CuLTURE. To the condescen- 
sion of his Grace the Duke of Northumberland we are greatly indebted 
“for the favour of an opportunity of figuring this, and several plants of 
the first rarity, which have lately flowered at his Grace’s princely abode, 
Sion Hous. Seeds of the Lisianthus Russellianus were brought into 
this country in 1835. It requires the common treatment of half-hardy 
annuals, 
DERIVATION OF THE NAMEs. 
LIsIANTHUS, ALoooc LIssos, smooth, and av@oc antHos, a flower. Russe Liianvs, 
in honour of his Grace the Duke of Bedford, whose aid, imparted to Drum- 
mond at the time when his closing hours needed such succour, well entitles 
him to the honour of this particular plant being called after him, even if his 
many and valuable services to botany and horticulture did not point tu him 
as deserving the homage of bot tanis ists. 
“Manibus date lilia_ 
Purpureos soruean fe res an! 
— ohoseteg accumulem jar et fu tongar th inani 
Syn 
Listantaus RussELLIANUS. es: te Sotsniaal Magazine, t. 3626. 
