Science, I shall have the approbation of every Botanist and 
of every lover of Horticulture. | 
Although apparently an annual in the wild state, yet no 
specimen flowered till 1837, and then for the first time in the 
greenhouse at Bothwell! Castle, under the skilful manage- 
ment of Mr. Turneuiy. It was there that the drawing here 
figured was made, in August of that year. Shortly after, its 
lovely blossoms were produced in the Glasgow Botanic Gar- 
den : and so long-lived were they, that we have remarked a 
single blossom continuing in great beauty for a period of 
three weeks. I think there can be no doubt but, under pro- 
per management, by forcing in the early spring, and plant- 
ing out in the open border, this plant will there perfect its 
flowers as readily as the Patox Drummondii. In the Genus 
the species will rank near L. glaucifolius, Jacg., Ic. Rar. t. 33. 
(Cutora exaliata, Grisesr.) having, like it, glaucous leaves, 
a deeply divided corolla, and long subulate segments to 
the calyx, but readily distinguished by the vastly larger 
flowers, three to five-neryed (not single-ribbed) leaves, of 
which the upper ones are finely acuminated, and by the 
absence of a keel or wing to the calyx-segments. In the 
dried collection sent home by Mr. Drummonp, and distri- 
buted, this plant is numbered 177. I possess specimens 
gathered by M. Berenpier, at Nouveau Leon, Monterey, 
Mexico; and by Mr. Nurratt, from the Great Salt River, 
Arkansa. 
Descr. Annual. Stem one to two feet high, erect, round- 
ed, simple, or throwing out a few opposite branches, and, 
as well as the foliage, glabrous and glaucous. Leaves 
opposite and connate, ovate or ovato-oblong, three to five- 
nerved, very acute, gradually becoming smaller upwards, 
and more acuminated, till they pass into the subulate brac- 
teas at the base of the peduncles. Flowers large, hand- 
some, borne in a terminal panicle. Pedicels elongated. 
Calyx deeply five-partite; the segments erect, from an 
ovate base, gradually lengthened into a long, subulate 
pot. Corolla as large as a tulip! Tube short, limb of 
five, large, obovate, spreading segments: the colour a rich 
purple, with a very deep eye in the centre. Filaments 
scarcely longer than the tube: Anthers large, yellow. 
Germen oblong, equal in length with the style: stigma of 
two, very large, yellow-green, velvety spreading plates. 
Margins of the valves of the capsule much introflexed. 
=< minute, orbicular-reniform, deeply punctated, pale- 
rown. 
Fig.1. Stamen. 2. Pistil. 3. Section of the Germen —~magnified, — 
