Our drawing was made from a plant that flowered in the 
rockery at Kew in the course of the present summer. 
Descr. Rootstock nearly as thick as a man’s little finger, 
sending out copious whip-like root-fibres. Leaves many in 
a rosette, sessile, obovate-cuneate, two or three inches long, 
an inch or an inch and a half broad, glabrous or pubescent, 
more or less farinose on both sides, especially when young, 
cartilaginous and farinose on the margin, entire or crenate 
in the upper third or half. Peduncle longer than the leaves, 
sometimes half a foot long, glabrous or pubescent towards 
the apex. lowers three to twenty in an umbel, bright 
yellow, fragrant; bracts minute, ovate, mealy; pedicels 
half or three-quarters of an inchlong, Calyx campanulate, 
nearly one-sixth of an inch long; segments ovate-oblong, 
obtuse, less than half as long as the tube. Corolla-tube 
narrowly infundibuliform, under half an inch long; limb 
half or three-quarters of an inch in diameter; segments 
obovate-cuneate, deeply emarginate. Stamens in the short- 
styled form, as drawn, forming a ring below the throat of 
the corolla-tube. Capsule globose, a quarter of an inch 
long and broad.—J. G. Baker. 
Fig. 1, Calyx; 2, corolla, cut open; 3, an anther; 4, pistil of short-styled form 
—all more or less enlarged. 
