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Veronica longieolia, var. subsessilis. A hardy herbaceous Japanese plant, bearing 

 stout erect spikes of handsome blue flowers. Undoubtedly one of the handsomest of the 

 genus. 



An erect branching under-shrub, two to four feet high; stem cylindrical; branches ascending, puberulous. 

 Leaves two to four inches long, very shortly petioled, dark green, ovate or ovate-lanceolate, deeply acutely serrate ; 

 nerves strong and puberulous beneath. Racemes terminal, and on lateral branches, six inches to nearly a foot long, 

 subsessile or pedimcled, striate, erect, very dense flowered ; rachis pubescent. Bracts linear-lanceolate. Pedicels 

 about as long as the calyx. Sepals ovate-oblong, or linear, subacute, ciliolate. Corolla one-third of an inch in 

 diameter, bright amethyst-blue ; tube very short ; segments spreading, rounded, concave. Filaments slender, ex- 

 ceeding the corolla-segment. Style filiform; stigma capitate. Capsule rather longer than the sepals, turgid, two- 

 lobed. —Botanical Magazine, 6407. 



Abutilon insigne. Tlanclion. A greenhouse shrub, with large round heart-shaped leaves 



