, Perianthium pale purple, funnel-shaped,
tube half-an-mch long, cjdindrical, narrow, paler, the limb
turbinately campanulate, 6-cleft, gradually attenuated into
the tube, which it thnce surpasses in length, the lobes are
oblong, or oblong-lanceolate, somewhat acute, and marked
with 4 or 5 deeper coloured nerves. Stamens 6, declinate,
nearly equal, shorter than the perianthium, attached to the
base of the tube. Filaments slender, glabrous, white. Anthers
short, incumbent, yellow, composed of 2 parallel con-
nate cells. Omrium oblong, 3-sided, green. Style filiform,
white, decimate, longer than the stamens, rather thicker at
the apex. Stigma blunt, undivided.
An interesting addition to our hardy flowers from Japan
whence It was introduced last year by Mr. Knight of the
Exotic Nursery King’s Road, Chelsea, where oiir drawing
was taken m August last. It is well distinguished from
ccerulea by the form of its leaves and flowers. Thunberg
seems to have confounded both these, as well as alba, in the
Fkra Japónica, and in the second volume of the Linnean
Iransactions where he first separates faraa/o/ia, he continues
to confound them with the alba. The three are essentially
diflerent. The alba has the stamina inserted into the middle
ot Rie tube of the perianthium. In a number of mature
seeds of ccerulea, which I examined, I found but 3 embrvos
Ihey were united together at the base, the central one bein^
considerably larger than the rest, and apparently the onlv
one likely to vegetate.
The genus was named by Sprengel after Henry Christian
fiunck, an apothecary at Gefrees, in the principality of
Bayreuth, in the Prussian States, the discoverer of several
new mosses, and who has published fasciculi of dried specimens
of the cryptogamous plants of Germany. D Don
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