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one flower, which ours had not; but this may be a cir- 
cumstance incident to culture. We have however noted 
the two as distinct varieties under proper names, by which 
they may be recognised and kept distinct as species if they 
should prove finally different. 
The subject of this article has been now first introduced 
from China by the Horticultural Society, in whose conser- 
vatory it flowered in May last, when the present drawing 
was taken. The flower is elegant, of considerable duration, 
and delicately fragrant. 
The species comes very near to Linium japonicum, but in 
that the corolla is twice larger, of a broad turbinate shape, 
very shortly tubular at the base, the pollen of a reddish 
brown, and the scent the reverse of agreeable. 
Stem a foot or more high, smooth. Leaves scattered, 
wide-set, sessile, spreading, narrowly lanceolate, smooth, 
3-4 inches long, flat, taper-pointed, narrowed towards 
the base. Peduncle (in our plant) solitary, terminal, one- 
flowered, upright, about 3 inches long. Flower white, 
nodding, elongatedly campanulate, five inches or more in 
length, sixparted; segments spatulately lengthened, pointed, 
inner ones rather broader, with an outer prominent mid- 
rib corresponding with an inner marginate furrow; tube 
greenish, formed by the long narrow imbricately cohering 
ungues of the segments, 3-nerved, equal to the limb and 
with the diameter of a swan-quill, very slightly enlarged 
upwards; limb turbinately recurved. Anthers deep yellow, 
when all the pollen is shed, nearly round. Stigma a 3-lobed 
fleshy head. 
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