which are longer than the pale-green flowers, here, the 

 coloured flowers are much longer than the bracteas, and 

 give to the heads altogether a different character. It 

 flowered in July, in Mr. Veitch's greenhouse, and we 

 are indebted to him for the specimens here figured. It 

 appears to be an annual; and, in all probability, seedling 

 plants put out in the early summer, would flourish in 

 the open ground, and prove a very great additional or- 

 nament to our flower borders. 



Descr. Annual ? Stems nearly erect, one to two feet 

 high, branched, clothed with appressed and somewhat silky 

 hairs. Leaves opposite, lanceolate, very acute, almost 

 pungently so, two or more inches long, clothed, especially 

 beneath, with the same kind of hairs as the stem. Peduncles 

 elongated, monocephalous ; or the head may be more cor- 

 rectly considered as an aggregation of smaller, sessile heads, 

 having at the base, a polyphyllous involucre, of which the 

 leaves resemble those of the stem, except its being shorter 

 and broader. Of partial bracteas, there are two at the 

 base of each flower, ovate, carinate, acute, glabrous, and 

 quite entire. Sepals five, erect, linear, rather acute, full rose- 

 colour, about thrice the length of the bracteas, glabrous 

 above, lower down beset with a few long, spreading, hairs. 

 Staminal tube a long cylindrical membrane, equal in length 

 with the sepals, six-toothed at the apex, each tooth cut 

 into two subulate segments, below which, and opposite to 

 them, the sessile one-celled anthers are inserted. Germen 

 globose ; style very short. Stigmas two, long, subulate. 



Fig. 1. Flower, with two Bracteas. 2. Staminal Tube laid open. 3. Pistil : 

 -magnified. 



