long narrow stripes. The leaves are loosely decussated, 
each pair crossing; the other at rather distant intervals: each 
leaf is directed upwards, is about an inch long, narrow, 
lanceolate, rigid, on the under side convex green and con- 
spicuously dotted with dark-glandular papille, the seats of 
an aromatic lymph, on the upper concave glaucous spotless, 
and without any trace of the nerve that traverses the middle 
length of the under. Flowers in naked spikes surrounding 
below the foliage some few branches, produced at the same 
time with themselves from the circumference of the stem. 
Calyx green, oblate, urceolate. Stamens an inch and half 
long, with scarlet filaments united for the length of the short 
reddish corolla in five distinct multifid shafts. 
The plant belongs to the greenhouse department, and is 
rather tender. Thrives in a mixture of hazel-loam and 
peat-mould. Flowers early in the summer, and is very or- 
namental. | 
Introduced in 1803 by Mr. Peter Good. 
. The drawing was made at the nursery of Messrs, Whit- 
ley, Brames, and Milne, Parson's Green, Fulham. 
a The corolla dissected vertically... 4 The pistil. 
Note.—In the article SryLIDIUM graminifolium, vol. 1. fol. 90, second 
page, line 20, for * monadelphous” read “ monopetalous." 
