the winter of 1846-47 unprotected, and without any artificial 
covering except its own decayed leaves. The plant did not 
produce seed. 
Duscr. Plant about sixteen inches high. Zeaves ten or eleven 
inches long, numerous, radical, erect, smooth, broadly lanceolate, 
acute, shining above, covered below with a yellowish mealy 
matter, or farina, (the grains of which are supported on short 
cellular prolongations), gradually ending in a sheathing petiole 
which is deeply hollowed on its upper surface ; margins of leaves 
slightly undulated with close sharp serratures, which occasionally 
point downwards and are somewhat revolute at the point ; mid- 
rib very prominent on the lower side, grooved on the upper, not 
covered with mealiness. Vernation revolute. Scape umbellate 
with numerous flowers, longer than the leaves, covered for 
about half its length from below the poimt where the pedicels 
diverge, with a pale, sulphur-yellow farina, similar to that on the 
leaves. Involucre polyphyllous, leaflets (one of which is at the 
base of each pedicel) lanceolate, from half to three quarters of an 
inch long, and shorter than the pedicels which are from one inch 
to one inch and a quarter in length. Calyx gamosepalous, five- 
cleft, campanulato-tubular, covered with farina, its segments 
lanceolato-acute. Corolla yellow, gamopetalous, salver-shaped, 
its tube twice as long as the calyx, narrow about the middle, 
and then expanding in a somewhat campanulate manner near its 
union with the limb, where there is a marked contraction ; limb 
of an orange tint towards the centre of the flower, with five 
grooves at the part where it joins the tube, having five segments, 
which are rounded, waved, somewhat crenate, covered with 
minute capitate hairs. Stamens five, attached to the corolla, 
free part of filaments very short, anthers opening longitudinally, 
introrse ; pollen spherical. Ovary rounded, oblong, having an 
appearance of ten teeth at its apex, indicating five bidentate 
carpels ; style round; stigma capitate, obscurely five-lobed with a 
depression in the centre; placenta free, central, with numerous 
rows of amphitropal ovules. 
W. Batrour. 
Fig. 1. Section of the tube of the corolla, showing the pistil and stamens. 
2. Pistil:—magnified. (The drawing ; ke " 
communicated by Professor Balfour). as well as the description are kindly 
