gardens from Algiers; and, though an annual, its beauty will 
recommend it to more extended cultivation, and it is said to 
answer well for flower-borders. Our plants were kept in a cool 
greenhouse, and flowered in August. 
Descr. An annual, ten inches to a foot high, much branched, 
almost from the root. Lowest and youngest /eaves somewhat 
crowded and imbricated, the rest distant, patent, ovato-lanceo- 
late, entire, glaucous green. The ultimate branches or peduncles, 
each terminated by a single flower, form a lax panicle. Flowers 
large. Calyx with the sepals green, erect, imbricated, lanceolato- 
subulate, rigid, the margin membranous, ciliated with rather 
rigid hairs. Petals broadly obovate, clawed, minutely crenulated 
at the edge, of a rich crimson colour, the claws streaked wit 
black, and internally with white. Staminal tube rather long, 
cylindrical. Anthers large. Ovary oval, tapering into a thick 
style: stigmas long, linear, downy. 
Fig. 1.’Flower deprived of its petals. 2. Staminal tube, including the pistil. 
3. Pistil :—smagnified. 
