to with an emarginate or a trifid stigma; from with a 
nearly obsolete calyx, to with one deeply five-cleft; from 
with a spurred, to with a spurless tube; from with a regu- 
lar, to with an irregular limb, from with no capsule, to 
with one that is thick and three-celled. It has been drafted 
by Gertner, who has collected a portion of the species, into 
a separate genus, he calls Fepra, to which our present plant 
belongs; but the alteration has not been adopted by My. 
Dryander, in the late edition of the Hortus Kewensis. ` 
A hardy annual plant, not very common in our gardens, 
where, however, it has been cultivated ever since 1596. 
Native of the department of the Var in France, of Spain, 
Sicily, Greece, and Barbary. From three or four inches to 
a foot or more in height. Root fleshy, fusiform. Stem 
subdivided into many branches, patent, round, smooth, 
fleshy, leafy. Leaves opposite, somewhat fleshy, smooth, 
ovate-oblong, obtuse, indented, at the base principally; 
lower ones petioled; upper ones subsessile, narrowed at the 
base. Cymes terminal, subtrichotomous. Peduncles thick- 
ened, fleshy. Bractes imbricate, lanceolate, ciliate. Flowers 
upright, rose-coloured. Calyx superior, bipartite; with 
patent ovate, acute, persistent segments. Tube of the 
corolla slender, geniculate or kneed, very shortly spurred 
beneath; limb bilabiate, 5-cleft, with a pale lower li 
marked with 3 lines. Stamens 2, upright, extruded, al- 
most the length of the limb: anthers blue. Style the length 
of the stamens: stigma bifid. Capsule elliptical, ventricose, 
three-celled, crowned by the calyx: seeds solitary oblong. 
The drawing was made from a plant in the collection of 
Lord Tankerville, at Walton-upon-Thames. 
a An entire flower.  Pistil. 
