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The drawing. was.made ftom a very recently imported 
plant which flowered in the open ground at Messrs. Whitley 
and Co.’s, of the Fulham nursery, in July last. It is said to 
be perfectly hardy. 
An herbaceous. milky -hoarily villous perennial plant. 
Stem 1-2 feet high, oftener simple than branched, round, 
streaked, slightly flexuose between the flowers. Radical 
teaves petioled, ‘subhastately lanceolate, coarsely sub-cre- 
nately toothed, slightly curled at the edge, slightly wrinkled, 
nerved; upper cauline ones scattered, half-stemclasping, 
oblong, lanceolate, serrately toothed with teeth headed by 
a-small gland, somewhat-curled at the edge, nerved, reti- 
culately veined. lowers blue, nodding, disposed in a 
long scattered wideset raceme; peduncles axillary, solitary, 
one-flowered, from 3 inches long to nearly none, round, 
streaked, rather stiff, ascendent, leafletted, two leaflets at the 
_base largest and decussating the one at. the axil, the rest 
smaller scattered distant, one close to the calyx. Calyx 
campanulate, spreading, 3 times shorter than the corolla; 
leaflets narrow, sagittate, villous, upright, with a middle 
keel-like nerve, the corner of each of the sinuses juts 
downwards along the sides of the germen like a short spur; 
and is headed by a small red thinly pencilled gland. 
Corolla oblong-campanulate, little less than an inch and 
half deep, externally pubescent and nerved, limb spreading, 
recurved, about 3 shorter than the tubular portion, seg= 
ments oblong, ovate, sharp, 3-nerved. Stamens the length 
of the calyx; filaments rigid, vaulted below, obovately di- 
Jated, villous at the margins, converging into a depressed 
oblate boss, each surmounted by a short setaceous antheri= 
ferous pedicle: anthers cream-coloured, ultimately coiling 
backwards. Germen. woolly, white, oblate, shortly tur- 
binate, 3-cornered, 3-celled ; ovules numerous flat: style 
equal to the tubular portion of the corolla, upright, 
thickish, round, white and blue: stigmas slightly spreading, 
subulate, greenish yellow inwards. os 
Mr. Marschall queries if this is not of the same species as 
Campanuta violefolia of Lamarck; we have compared the 
description of that with our plant, and believe the two to be 
distinct. . oe 
wes 
