the command of Captain Baudin. It was unknown in this 
country until imported last year, from the nursery of 
Monsieur Cels at Paris, by Mr. Allen, nurseryman, in the 
King’s Road. The parent plant is said to be six feet high, | 
and much branched; those we have seen are yet small, and 
have not divided into branches. The bloom is abundant, of 
a. fine deep violet blue, rendering it a very desirable shrub 
to the greenhouse and conservatory, where it flowers about 
March. 
An upright branching shrub; stem about the thickness of 
the little finger, beginning to divide into branches about the 
middle. Leaves coriaceously stiffened, scattered, widishly 
set, uprightly spreading, rhomboidally or ventricosely lan- 
ceolate, 1-2 inches long, 8-10 lines broad with finely netted 
veins, blunted at each end, with a small terminal point, 
varicosely nerved underneath and villous; petiole severak 
times shorter than the blade, round, villous, brownish. 
Peduncles numerous, disposed on the branches in the fornr 
of a raceme, axillary, solitary, loosely several-(2-4?) flow-~ 
ered, upright, brown, villous, round, several times longer 
than the petiole, shorter than the leaf: two small opposite 
close-pressed side-bractes at the base of each flower. Flowers 
scentless, veined, scarcely half an inch deep, somewhat 
nodding: calyx + shorter than the vexillum, 4-cleft to about 
one third of its length, brownish, subsericeously villous, 
2-lipped;. upper lip the longest, very broadly cuneate or 
turbinate with a broad rounded margin slightly notched 
at the top, by the folding inwards of the sides: bluntly 
keeled at the back; dower lip three-pronged, equal, straight, 
sharp-pointed. Vevillum upright, spreading, smooth, ob- 
cordately round, much larger than the alee and keel, with a 
deep incision at the upper margin and a large double white 
spot at the base; waguis short: wings spatulately oblong, en= 
closing the keel which is smaller, about the length of the 
white mark at the base of the vexillum; keel obtuse, com-— 
pressed, of the same colour as the wings. Stamens mona- 
delphous (according to Mr. Edwards sometimes diadelphous), 
with a dorsal fissure, equal: anthers small, yellow; pollen — 
grumous. Germen pedicled, short, compressed, 2-seeded, 
smooth, whitish; style several times longer, smooth: stigma 
a small pubescent head. Seeds strophiolated, having a fan~ 
gous accretion at the ventral region. 
