drawing was made in June last, in the Garden of the 
Horticultural Society, where it had been raised from 
_Mr. Douglas’s seeds. 
It is a very neat upright: plant, with a nearly simple 
stem, and very deep purple flowers. It grows readily in 
common garden soil, and is propagated by division of the 
roots. 
Stem erect, simple, round, somewhat flexuose, pubes- 
cent. eaves on long stalks, divided into several linear, 
forked, downy segments; the petioles filiform, more than 
twice as long as the lamina. Raceme terminal, simple, 
of from 6 to 8 flowers. Peduncles downy, longer than 
the flowers; bracteole 2, opposite, subulate, placed under 
the flowers. lowers a deep bluish purple. Sepals downy 
externally in the middle, shorter than the straight, subu- — 
late, obtuse, shrivelled spur. 
J. L, 
