and smooth or bearing a few short scattered hairs on the underside ; 
the upper leaves have shorter stalks, are less divided, and more hairy; 
and the uppermost of all are reduced to three linear lanceolate sessile 
lobes. FLowers few, each terminating a branch, sweet-scented, and 
perhaps the largest in the genus, being rather larger than those of 
Aquilegia Alpina and Sternbergi. Sepats broadly lanceolate, of a 
yellowish white, tinged with a slight shade of blue on the margin and 
with green at the points, longer than the petals. PrTALs ofa yellow- 
ish white, the lamina very broad and truncate, the spur not half the 
length of the lamina, thick, very much curved or hooked, of a slight 
bluish tint, having a few hairs on the ouside. STAMENS very nume- 
rous, rather shorter than the petals, the inner sterile membranous 
ones rather shorter than the styles. Ovaries four, five, or six, mae 
and glandular. : 2 
PopuLar AND GeEocRaruicaL Notice. This is a most valuable 
addition to a well known ornamental European genus, furnished by 
the mountainous chains of the North of India, a country analagous in 
many of its vegetable productions to the alpine districts of the south 
of Europe. With all the singularity of form and elegant growth of 
our own Columbines, this species presents a colour of flower very 
unusual in the genus, and exhales a fragrance so much a disideratum 
in those hitherto cultivated. In its botanical affinities the plant 
comes nearest to Aquilegia pubiflora of Wallich, but the flower is 
twice as large, and the spurs of the petals very much more hooked, 
besides which pubiflora appears to have the flowers of a rusty 
purple. G. B. 
InrropucTion; WHERE Grown; CuLture. The Aquilegia fra- 
grans is one of a number of North Indian plants raised by the Hor- 
ticultural Society of London, from seeds presented by the Honourable 
East India Company. It has only flowered this spring (1840) for the 
first time, and has been hitherto kept in a conservatory or under a frame, 
but there is every reason to hope that it will prove as hardy as its 
congeners already in cultivation. 
DERIVATION OF THE Name. 
eli cee to be derived from aquila an eagle, on account of the gen- 
appearance to a bird, presented by its two contiguous wae The name 
Galvani: from Columba, a dove, is given from the same c 
Fraarans, fragrant. 
