with in our gardens. We are not aware, however, of any 
difficulty in its culture. The corolla is observed to vary from 
a broad campanulate form to one of narrower dimensions. 
In flower during a great part of the summer. 
Perennial? Stems from a foot and half to two feet high 
and more, leafy downwards, round, smooth, angularly 
streaked, upright, panicled upwards. Radical leaves (which 
are not present after the stem has appeared) petioled, cor- 
date, or nearly round, with a marginated petiole; cauline 
ones scattered in every direction, numerous, spreading, 
upper ones gradually larger, ovately lanceolate, shortly 
petioled or sessile, rather substantial, serrated, the teeth 
having a small gland at the point, entire towards the base, 
depressedly. nerved, smooth, reticulately veined, 3 inches 
long or more, one or more broad, pale underneath, the 
uppermost. the longest pointed. Panicle terminal, pyra- 
midal, compounded at the lower part, about a foot long, 
facing one way, loose, numerous, upright, slightly spread- 
ing; flowers whitish blue, nodding; peduncles or branchlets 
axillary, few-flowered, filiform, nervedly streaked, naked: 
pedicles somewhat coloured, rather shorter than the flower, 
flexile, recurved, beset at the base by an oblong-lanceolate 
glandularly toothed bracte, and higher up by two other very 
small ones, which are not toothed. Calyx continuous with 
the germen, smooth, radiate, leaflets lanceolate glandularly 
subserrated, and pointed by a black red gland. Corolla 
cupularly and broadly, or cyathiformly and more narrowly 
campanulate, obsoletely pentagonal 3 of an inch deep; seg- 
ments of the limb broadly ovate, acuminate, slightly spread- 
ing, reflectent at the margin. Stamens a third shorter than 
the corolla: filaments white, partly lanceolate, partly filiform, 
membranously dilated below, edged with a thick shaggy pu- 
bescence, smooth on the inside, converging into the form of 
a tube, at the upper part coiled back, spreading naked; 
anthers upright, linear, sulphur-coloured. Germen turbi- - 
nate, smooth, torosely 3-lobed, ribbed, crowned by a smalt 
cylindric epigynous upright cream-coloured fleshy smooth 
tube which is several times shorter than the wide parts of 
the filaments that enclose it: style 3 longer than the co- 
rolla, clavately filiform, smooth and white at the lower 
part, -blue and villous above : stigmas lobe-formed, spread 
ing, recurved, obtuse, whitish inwards. , 
The drawing was taken at the nursery of Messrs, White 
ley, Brames, and Milne, King’s-Road, Fulham, < 2 —.-? 
