reign again, and replace the present passion for a blaze of 

 gaudy colours along our garden walks. 



Descr. A shrub two to three feet high, slender, twiggy, 

 with erect, rather flexuous branches, everywhere covered on 

 the leaves and branches with a hoary pubescence. Leaves 

 opposite, half to one and a half inch long, those on the 

 main stems and branches linear-oblong acute, those on the 

 branchlets more spathulate, with recurved tips, all equally 

 hoary on both surfaces. Peduncles very slender, six to nine 

 inches long, many-flowered. Pedicels corymbose, branched 

 towards the tip of the peduncle, opposite below, half to one 

 inch long, erect, as well as the peduncles covered with loose 

 soft, very spreading hairs. Flowers an inch and a quarter to 

 an inch and a half broad, bright yellow with a purple eye. 

 Sepals ovate, long acuminate, subtended by two linear nar- 

 row bracts, tomentose on the back. Petals broadly and 

 shallowly obcordate, with an apiculus between the lobes. 

 Stamens unequal, very numerous ; filaments short ; anthers 

 purple, with yellow pollen. Ovary globose, villous ; style 

 very short ; stigma large, capitate, three-lobed. — J. 1). H. 



Fig. 1. Calyx and ovary. 



