Barbary, except officinalis, which is common to our ow! — 
country as well as many other parts of Europe. ; 
Orientalis is found wild in Turkey; was received by 
Miller from the Botanic Garden at Paris, and cultivated at 
Chelsea in 1752. Flowering here in the open ground a5 
early as March, the blossom is very liable to be defaced by 
the cold winds of that month, and is not often seen in perfec- — 
tion with us. Miller recommends the planting of it in ol 
rubbish or on walls, where it grows less rankly, and is 0 
course not so subject to be injured by the effects of early 
frosts, which sometimes destroy it in other situations. 
Rootstock perennial, fleshy, 4 or 5 inches long, rather 
smaller than the finger, blackish without, white within- 
Root-leaves petioled, large, cordate, acuminated, undulated, 
reticulately veined, of a dingy green, thinnishly hispid of 
both sides, from 3 to 5 inches broad, sometimes nearly 
long: petioles channelled, nearly of the same length as the 
blades, thickly and subreversedly hispid, sheathing at the 
base; stem-leaves small, alternate, more shortly petioled, 
uppermost ovately lanceolate, nearly sessile, tapered at the — 
base. Stem herbaceous, upright, from a foot to a foot an@ 
a half high, angularly round, hispid, purplish; upwards 
paniculately branched, and leafy. Racemes at the top of 
the branches, twin, short, furred, nutant, bracteate- 
Bractes ovate, obtuse, furred, shorter than the pedicles. — 
Flowers numerous, light-purplish-blue, cernuous. Segment# 
of the calyx obovately oblong, furred, upright. Tube of the 
corolla nearly twice as long as the calyx, white, enlarged — 
upwards; faux furred within, encircled at the top by short — 
rounded emarginate pubescent white valvules (hollow like the 
spur of a flower, with the orifice opening on the outside) ; Lim) 
longer than the tube, segments linear, furred underneath, 
horizontal at the bottom, revolute at the top. Stamens 
inserted into the faux, shorter than the limb when expanded, 
upright, connivent, subulate, furred within, pinkish. 47- 
thers incumbent, oblong, black. Germen small, 4-cleft- 
Style filiform, rose-coloured, smooth, but little higher that 
the stamens. Stigma obtuse, black, . 
The principal part of the above specific description is # 
version of Sir J, HE. Smith’s, in the Flora Greeca. — 
_ The drawing was taken at the nursery of Messrs. W hit- 
ley and Co. Fulham. 
