with angular incisions at the sides, the lobules of which аге 
shallow and bfoad, at the end entire and rounded, whole 
blade seldom more than 91 inches long, soft-haired, espe- 
cially underneath; floral leaves alternate and bifarious, 
ovate and elliptic, generally entire, seldom two to- 
gether, when one is rather smaller, and placed almost 
collaterally in respect to the other, never oppositely. 
Raceme terminal, upright, flexuose, alternately and dis- 
tantly manyflowered, leafy, distichous or two ranked; 
flowers axillary, very shortly pedicled, solitary, upright, 
opening one at a time. Calyr of a lurid green, inferior, 
persistent, substantial, nearly 3 of an inch long, tubularly 
campanulate, soft-haired; lobules 5, broad, patent, short, 
awnless, nettedly veined, 4 times shorter or more than the 
tube. Corolla caducous, higher and wider than the calyx, 
of a yellowish straw-colour, violet within the faux or throat; 
limb patent, very slightly irregular, segments broader than 
long, obverse, two uppermost larger. Stamens deflectent. 
_Germen concealed within the tubular portion of the calyx; 
lid green, rounded, visible in front of the tube as the fruit 
advances to maturity. But we missed the opportunity of 
inspecting the corolla after the figure was taken, and must 
refer to the plate concerning that part of the flower. 
The species appears to come the nearest in habit to the 
pusillus of Persia, of any we are aware of: but that is an 
annual, and has a pinnatifid foliage. 
.__ The drawing was made in December, at the nursery of 
Messrs. Whitley and Co. King’s Road, Parson’s Green, 
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