Primroses. It grows readily in peat and loam, but is 
scarcely to be propagated except by cuttings of the root. 
Although this is probably not of uncommon occurrence in 
Brazil, it appears to have been hitherto undescribed ; the 
obscure .E. pubescens of Willdenow, to whose character it 
nearly approaches, having heart-shaped leaves. We have 
named it with reference to the coloured eye of the corolla, 
which, being deep rosy red in the centre, with five starry 
lobes, bordered with a sort of orange-yellow, gives a strik- 
ing appearance to the flowers. 
It belongs to the genus in its strictest sense, as defined 
and most skilfully limited by Dr. Brown. In the dissections 
in the accompanying plate, figure 1 represents the style 
and stigma, and the five scales that surround the ovary ; 
fig. 2, a perpendicular section of a part of the calyx and co- 
rolla, shewing the relative position of the ovary, style, stigma, 
anthers, and contracted part of the tube of the corolla. 
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