was taken at the riursery of Messrs. Whitley and Co. Ful- 
ham, where it has been very recently received from the 
Botanic Garden of Berlin. It is perfectly hardy, and flowers 
in May and June. 
Root perennial. _ Stems herbaceous, procimbent, radi- 
cant, from a foot and a half to two feet long, quite simple, 
seldom branched, smooth, frequently purplish, slightly 4-. 
cornered. Leaves subsessile, opposite, obtuse, dark green 
above, subrevolute at the edge, very shortly and _ bristly 
ciliate, the lowermost nearly round, the next ovate, then 
oblongly ovate, and lastly lanceolate. Flowers 4-5 upoti a4 
stem; peduncles solitary, axillary, seldom opposite, upright, 
equal to the leaves or longer, roitrid or slightly compressed, 
recurved after the flower has faded. Calyx slightly coloured, 
5-parted, upright, persistent, segments wideset, acute, mi- 
nutely ciliate, toothed on each side the base by a small 
land: . Corolla like that of the congeners, about an inch 
and half across, varying from a deep violet purple to white, 
deepishly five-furrowed at the narrow part of the tube, faux 
closed by a white pubescence. Filaments hirsute where 
they join to the corolla, prominent on one side, smooth, — 
white, dilated towards the anthers. Anthers yellow hirsutely 
furred at the top without, having a membranous lamina 
on each side their middle. Germens 2, ovate, intercepted 
on each side by a yellow green melliferous gland. Styles 
white. Stigmas white-woolled.  Follicles 2, sometimes 
narrowed in the middle, subangular, narrower towards the 
top, one of them often miscarrying. Seeds oblong, convex 
on one side, with a longitudinal cavity on the other. 
