nequaquam decurrentia, infima” ambientia, humi sub anthesi recumbentia, 
sinuata, crenata, superiora obsoleté sinuata crenatague, summa lato-cordata 
crenata cum acumine. Spica elongata, bractex trine lanceolato-acuminate 
extus tomentose, una (in cujus axilla sedet flos) major, 2 minores . calyci 
subtense atque equales, cum majori decussantes, adscendentes. Cal. al- 
bo-lanatus, subbilabiato-roiatus, semi-5-fidus segmentis acuminatis, intis 
nudus nitens. Flores suaveolentes: cor. sesquiunciam v. ultra transversa, 
sulfurea areola fauciali nigricante nudiusculé lucidé; limbus bilabiato- 
rotatus extus tomentosus, laciniis rotundatis, 2 superioribus subminoribus 
divisuré mutud breviore, 3 inferioribus tubo tenis partitis, horum medié 
majore orbiculaté; tubus brevissimus intis nigricans. Stam. summo tubo 
inserta; 3 superiora conniventia erecta arcolé nigré vix longiora, filamentis 
atropurpureis hirsuto-barbatis; anth. lunulate, barbd pallidé lutescenti re- 
ceptacult sui nidulantes ; 2 inferiora declinata invicem divergentia, filamentis 
compresso-filiformibus nigricantibus firmis. robustis nudiusculis inferne se- 
cundium latus interius pilis paucis raris conspersis: anth. nude, compresso- 
lineares anguste, uniloculares mentientes, per latus intertus filamenti carinato- 
adnate, rimé media longitudinali dehiscentes, theca viridiusculé subnaviculari, 
polline aurantiaco-flavescente grumoso: pubes staminea ¢ pilis clavato-capi- 
tatis. Stylus purpureus, Jiliformis, glaber, superné subclavato-grossescens, 
Jilamentis inferioribus equalis duplo verd tenuior: stigma viride, bilabiato- 
capitatum pruinosum, lobis crassis obtusis replicatis: germen ovato-rotundum, 
parvulum, albo-lanatum. Don MSS. 
The species made its first appearance in this country in 
the Physic Garden at Chelsea, where seeds had been sent 
by Dr. Fischer from the Gorenki Garden at Moscow. Its 
native spot is not specified; but is probably somewhere 
within the oriental provinces of Russia. 
In Professor’s Link’s Catalogue of the Berlin Garden 
the species is made synonymous with VERBAsCUM spectabile 
of the Supplement to the Flora Taurico-caucasica; but if 
the description of that species comes even near to the truth, 
which from the usual correctness and fidelity of its author 
there is no reason to doubt, the two can never belong 
to the same type; and we have consequently retained the 
one before us under the title by which it is accurately de- 
scribed, but indifferently figured in ‘“ The Rare Plants of 
the Botanic Garden at Munich, by M. Schranck.” 
Formosum is distinguished from its known congeners by 
leaves which are not decurrent, the lowermost of which are 
‘petioled and sinuated, by a loosishly-set spike of large sul- 
phur-coloured flowers with a black-purple smooth shining 
faux, and by two lower longer declined nearly smooth 
stamens. - aa Me 
