the Province of Shensi by Father Piccoli, of the Jesuit 
Mission in Hankow, which were received at the Royal 
Gardens through George Murray, Esq., F.RS., Keeper 
of the Botanical Department of the British Museum. 
It flowered in the Herbaceous collection in September, 
1898. 
Deser.—An erect, nearly glabrous, slender perennial, one 
to three feet high, branching and puberulous below, 
above and flowering branches very viscid. Leaves one 
to two and a half inches long, spreading and recurved, 
linear-oblanceolate, sub-acute or acuminate, nerveless, 
midrib deeply impressed above, base ciliate, contracted — 
sometimes into a very short petiole. Flowers erect, i 
rather large panicles with opposite erecto-patent branche 
in axillary pairs, or ternate at the tips of the branches; 
pedicels about half an inch long, with two small 
opposite linear obtuse bracteoles below the middle. Caly# 
an inch and a quarter long; tube narrow, cylindric, striate 
with close-set nerves, selioir fruiting inflated above the 
middle, base rounded; teeth small, erect, ovate, obtuse, 
_ Margins white, ciliolate. Petals white or rose-red, claw 
_ rather broad, margins toothed ; limb fan-shaped, half an 
inch long or more, bifid, base with a long linear segment 
es each side; lobes unequally lacerate. Anthers shortly 
_ exserted, broadly oblong. Gynophore twice as long as the 
_ capsule, slender, glabrous, Styles three, very short. Seeds 
= eRe flat on one surface, tubercled on the other.— 
Fig. 1, Cal 
amen 8 yx-tube laid open with gynophore and ovary; 2, petal and 
stamen :—all enlarged ; 4, calyx and ripe capsule, nat. size. 
