flowered in his hothouse at Spofforth the summer before last 
for the first time we believe in this country. 
The following account of the species is taken from the 
manuscripts of Dr. Roxburgh: 
«‘ Found among bushes, &c. in wild uncultivated spots 
near Calcutta; where it flowers in the rainy season.” 
“ Root perennial, subtuberous. Stems woody, winding 
themselves up high trees, &c.; young shoots a little hairy 
and slightly 4-winged. Leaves opposite, petioled, spread- 
ing, cordate, often angularly lobed, pointed, 5-7-nerved; 
slightly roughened on both sides by small rigid white hairs, 
4-8 inches long by nearly the same breadth: floral ones like 
the rest, but small: petioles upright, nearly as long as the 
leaves, swelled near the base, channelled, rough: sézpules 0. 
Peduncles axillary, solitary or in pairs or threes or double 
pairs on terminal racemes, which, when unsupported, hang 
in handsome festoons. Peduncles of the axillary flowers and 
pedicles of the racemes, cylindrical, subclavate, the length 
of the petioles, oneflowered. lowers very large, about 4 
inches broad when expanded; of a most beautiful bright 
blue colour. Bractes 0. Calyx: spathe bivalved, about as 
long as the tube and faux of the corolla; valves obliquely 
oblong, rounder and detached at the under edge, at the 
upper almost straight and slightly cohering, sometimes for 
the whole length, though in general only near the summit, 
streaked, pointed, a little hairy and marked with small 
black dots. Corolla of one piece, campanulate, placed on 
a large lobate annular disk which surrounds the germen: 
tube short and conical, faux large with a long yaulted 
cavity on the upper side, in which the stamens and style are 
contained, on the under with a larger corresponding palate 
elegantly marked with light and dark blue streaks; limb 5- 
parted, segments nearly round, 2 upper erect, 3 lower 
spreading. Stamens within the faux: filaments 4, inserted 
at the orifice of the tube, anterior pair much curved, and 
although longer than the other pair, yet from the curve in the 
filaments their anthers are only even with the posterior pair, 
oblongly ovate, compressed, wrinkled: anthers converging, 
equal, linear, upright, bilocular, with bearded edges to the 
cells as in Acanruus; both cells of the anterior ones are 
furnished with a curved sharp rigid white spur: of the poste- 
rior ones only the outer cell. Germen conical, subqua- 
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