in England as a hardy plant by Messrs. Osborne, of Fulham 
soon again to be suppressed in England in the rage for new 
things and neglect of any hardy herbaceous plants but the 
gaudy “ bedding-out stuffs.” It, however, held its place on 
the continent, from whence seeds were received at Kew some 
years ago. It flowers annually in the herbaceous grounds, 
and has a very handsome appearance in September and 
October, presenting in its robust habit and erect growth, 
larger, deeper-coloured petals, with no pale border, a 
marked contrast to the half prostrate flexuous-stemmed 
C’. silenoides. 
Duscr. An erect, straight, viscidly glandular-pubescent 
annual, three to four feet high; branches stout, erect, purplish 
green. Leaves half an inch to three inches long, opposite and 
alternate, petioled, ovate or ovate-lanceolate, obtuse, quite 
entire, membrancous, soft, bright green. Flowers axillary, 
solitary, pedicelled, deflexed ; pedicels one-third to one half 
an inch long, purple, 2-bracteolate, bracteoles alternate, green, 
small, Calyx an inch long, tubular, gibbous at the very base 
above, and swollen below the throat below, ten-nerved, 
purple, very viscid ; upper lobe triangular-ovate, erect; four 
others very small, spreading or recurved, broadly triangular, 
acute, with a tuft of villous hairs in the sinus between each. 
Four dorsal petals three-quarters of an inch in diameter, 
orbicular, clawed, fine maroon purple with pale veins; four 
other petals very small, orbicular, paler. Stamens hardly 
exserted from the throat of the calyx, filaments short, densely 
woolly above the middle; anther oblong. Ovary lanceolate, 
with a slender straight style, attached at its base to the 
recurved tongue-shaped disk. Capsule included in the sub- 
erect calyx-tube, ovoid, many-seeded.—J. D. H. 
Fig. 1, Vertical section of flower ; 2, front, and 3, side view of calyx; 4 and 5, 
Stamens ; 6, ovary and disk ; 7, capsule burst open ; 8, seed-bearing axis ; 9, seed : 
—all enlarged, 
