Descr. Shrubby, the lower part especially ; procum- 

 bent at the base, there bearing many, nearly erect, silky 

 branches, rather thickly beset with leaves, which are, the 

 largest of them, scarcely an inch long, sessile, linear, rather 

 acute, entire, one-nerved, clothed on both sides, but 

 especially beneath, with copious, appressed, silky, white, 

 hairs. Peduncles from the axils of the leaves, and longer 

 than they, but scarcely twice as long, bearing a pair of 

 small, subulate bracteas above the middle, and a solitary 

 flower. Calyx of five ovate, acuminated sepals, of which 

 the three outer are more or less silky on the back. Corolla 

 scarcely an inch in diameter, with a short tube, a little 

 longer than the calyx, which gradually expands into a 

 spreading, five-angled limb; white with a deep red-purple 

 eye. Stamens five, within the tubular part of the corolla. 

 Germen globose. Style, including the bipartite stigma, 

 about equal in length to the stamens. Capsule ovato- 

 globose, two-celled, surrounded by the persistent calyx. 

 Cells two -seeded. 



Fig. 1. Portion of the Peduncle, Calyx, and Pistil. 2. Fruit 3, Trans- 

 verse section of a Capsule : — magnified. 



