placed there by M. Decandolle, since the limb is manifestly 
indented; but is rather the intermediate link between gran- 
diflorum, the limb of the lower petals of which is entire, 
and that section of Delphinastrum where this is bifid. 
The figure from a dried plant in Gmelin’s work, referred 
to above, is very characteristic and a certain synonym; but 
the term hirsutus applied to the foliage in the description 
implies, in our view, rather a more conspicuous kind of 
pubescence than is present in the cultivated samples, whose 
fur, although dense and uneven, is short. The flowers are’ 
said to vary to cream-colour. 
Leaves subtomentosely furred of a dark blackish green, 
3-5-parted, lobes oblong trifid taper-pointed lateral ones 
subbifid; flowers about the size of those of De.psinium 
grandiflorum, of a very deep blue colour; leaflets of the calyx 
oval with a callously thickened submucronately pointed 
summit; spur straightish, equal to the leaflets; éwo upper 
petals just as in grandiflorum, lower ones shortly stipitate 
(stiped), inflexed at the top of the stipe with a very obtuse 
ovate limb indented at the top, scarcely bidentate, ciliated 
(fringed) near the base, bearded in the centre of the disk. 
Capsules three, furred, membranous, subinflated, reticu- 
lately marked at the back with black inosculating veins; 
mucronately pointed by the permanent styles. 
‘The drawing was taken at Messrs. Colville’s nursery in 
the King’s Road, Chelsea. 
