Refugium Botanicum. | [ November, 1871. 
TAB. 301. 
Natural Order Lapiara. 
Tribe OcrmoImpE®. 
Genus Lavanpuna, Linn. 
Section Spica, Benth. 
L. wanata (Boiss. Voy. Esp. t. 185). Sufiruticosa dense ramosa 
foliis oblanceolatis subspathulatis obtusis integerrimis margine 
revolutis utrinque dense persistenter albido-incanis, pedunculis 
elongatis strictis sepissime simplicibus foliis 2 reductis prope 
medium instructis, verticillastris densis vel sublaxis, bracteis 
linearibus ascendentibus infimis calyce equilongis, calycibus 
tubulosis pubescentibus dente supremo producto, corolle tubo 
puberulo dentibus rotundatis, genitalibus inclusis. — Benth. in 
D.C. Prodr. xii. 146. 
A native of the cool region of the Sierra Nevada, at an ele- 
vation of 4000 to 6500 feet above the sea-level. 
An undershrub, a foot and a half to two feet high, with exactly 
the general habit of the common garden lavender (L. Spica). Leaves 
closely placed on the barren stems and base of the flowering ones, 
ascending, oblanceolate, slightly spathulate, fifteen to twenty- 
one lines long, bluntish, entire, the edges slightly revolute, the 
texture thick and soft, both sides permanently matted with dense 
short whitish cottony tomentum. Peduncle a foot or more high, 
with a pair of reduced leaves about the middle. Whorls close or 
the lower remote, forming a spike three to four inches long, with 
six to twelve flowers in each. SBracts linear, aseending, two to 
four lines long. Calyx one-fourth of an inch long, soft and 
woolly, membranous, with eight dark ribs, the upper tooth pro- 
duced beyond the others. Corolla bright violet, the tube pube- 
rulent, four lines long, distinctly ribbed, all the five teeth short 
and rounded. Stamens and style included. 
Tas. 301.—1, flower viewed from below; 2, flower viewed laterally ; 
8, corolla opened out; 4, pistil: all magnified.—J. G. B. 

I procured this pretty species of Lavender from Mr. R. Stark, 
of Edinburgh. Its white woolly leaves and compact habit of 
growth render it a very desirable plant for the cool greenhouse. 
It grows freely in the open air during the summer months, and 
may probably prove hardy. Its fragrance is much the same as 
the common Lavender, from which it seems chiefly to differ in 
the thick wool-like coating of the leaves.—W. JV’. S. 
