long and quite obtuse calyx-segments, and the stem with
short pubescence, without the intermixture of longer hairs.
Whether the capsule is similarly carinate, cannot be determined
from dried specimens. In the same collection is
a specimen of V. Buxbaumii from the North of Persia, received
from Steven as “ V. persica D e s fo n ta in c sNow,
Desfontaines appears to have named his plant in a catalogue
of the Paris Garden, and Gaudin pronounces V.
Buxbaumii to be certainly the fj V. persica H. P Ours
should therefore be the plant of Poiret (as quoted doubtfully
above), notwithstanding that he describes the flower-
stalks as shorter than the leaves, and the corolla with oblong
segments and shorter than the calyx. Reichenbach
quotes Poiret without a question, observing that he has
described the younger state of the plant.
In the Flora Grceca, the corolla is figured rather smaller
than we find it, and its segments somewhat pointed.
W. B.
