our climate. Regel says that it forms an excellent and very” ; 
beautiful border-plant, and is easily propagated from seeds, — 
as indeed is the case with the specimen now at Kew, which — 
seeded freely last autumn. a 
Descr. Quite glabrous throughout. oot-stfock branching, — 
perennial. Stems many, ascending, three to six inches long, — 
leafy. Leaves pale green, glaucous, spreading, linear or — 
linear-oblong, rather broader upwards, sessile, acute, or — 
obtuse, two-thirds to three-quarters of an inch long, by one- — 
eighth to one-sixth of an inch broad, nerveless, quite entire. — 
Flowers in a very dense short oblong round-topped cylindric 
raceme, which is one to one and a half inches long, and three _ 
quarters of an inch broad, pale rose-pink in colour; pedicels 
short, quite concealed. Sepals linear-oblong, obtuse, erect. 
- Corolla quite equal and regular, one-fourth to one-third of an — 
inch broad; petals very broadly spathulate; blade rounded _ 
or broader than long, notched or 2-lobed. Filaments of the 
larger stamens nearly equal throughout their length in our _ 
plant (dilated below the middle, and not toothed according — 
to Boissier,—with a small tooth according to De Candolle); _ 
anthers short, yellow. Capsule obovate-oblong, concave, — : 
notched at both ends; wing narrow, quite entire; style not 
exceeding the notch._—/. D. H. 1 
Fig. 1, Front, and 2, side view of flower; 3, petals; 4, stamens and ovary ; 4 
5, ovary :—all magnijied. ‘ 
