they accord in every respect with that cultivated. M. Dr 
CanDoLLE appears to have seen only the latter, and yet he 
follows Mr. Brown in saying, that both cells of the capsule 
bear seed, while at the same time he refers to the Botanical 
Register, where the contrary is asserted. 
Descr. Stems several from the same root, from one to 
two feet high, glabrous, leafy, particularly on the upper 
portion, slightly branched. Leaves linear, acute, very 
slightly rough : the upper ones as well as the bracteas, calyx, 
and outside of the corolla furnished with a short, glandular 
pubescence ; lower ones scattered, upper ones fascicled, 
and forming a kind of verticel of several approximated rows. 
Spike from two and a half to six inches long, erect, shortly 
stalked, resembling a raceme on account of the attenuated 
base of the elongated ovaries: rachis glabrous. Bracteas 
subulate, incurved and slightly faleate. Calyx five-cleft, 
two-lipped, glandular, segments subulate. Corolla irregu- 
lar, five-cleft, one of the divisions resembling a lip, smaller 
than and of a different shape from the others, and deflexed: 
the other divisions oval, quite entire, white and spotted 
with red at the base. Stamens two : filaments united intoa 
column with the style. Anthers two-lobed, incumbent on 
the stigma, the lobes much divaricated. Style one, united 
with the column of stamens. Stigma blunt, undivided. 
Ovary inferior, or cohering with the tube of the calyx, 
narrow-linear, twice as long as the bractea, attenuated at 
each extremity, compressed, with a ridge along the upper 
side, two-celled, the lower or anterior cell bearing many 
ovules; the upper minute and empty, contained within the 
ridge. Capsule compressed, lanceolate, attenuated at the 
apex, two-celled, the upper cell a mere indurated, empty, 
very narrow tube, which is indehiscent : lower cell ventri- 
cose, bursting along the placenta which is attached to the 
upper margin. Seeds small, oval, slightly roughish, chest- 
nut-coloured. Albumen 
: between oily and fleshy, inclosing 
the minute embryo. y esny 5 
Professor Liyptey mentions the plant to be annual, and only three 
or four inches high : in the greenhouse of the Botanical Garden of Glas- 
gow its duration is more than annual, and it attains to about two feet- 
= is - very charming plant, no less deserving of cultivation for its beauty, 
‘an tor the singular property of the column of stamens being endow 
with a very active irritability, so that if wi : 
. . ? touched wi the out- 
side when curved, it bounds o ee with a pin ob 
: ver to the opposite si r and 
becomes inverted: this et pposite side of the flowe 
} erty is ob ‘ less 
degree, in the whole Genus. GA we. y iaue JR A BEE af 
Fig. 1. Flower, seen Boe and f. 2, ditto PREM Uy Eon 
of the Ovary. 3. Ovary, cut transversely about the ede en eote_seated on. the ape 
natural size. 5. Ditto, magnified. 6, pA apes amas all magnified. 4. Ripe fruit 
