TAB: 0204. = 
CERINTHE rertorta. 
Curve-flowered Cerinthe. 
Nat. Ord. BorAGINE®.—PENTANDRIA MOoONOGYNIA. 
Gen. Char. Calyx profunde 5-partitus, lobis plus minus ineequalibus, foliaceis. 
Corolla tubulosa, fauce nuda. Anthere hastate, lobis basi divergentibus, atte- 
nuatis, subconnatis. Stigma obtusum. Nucule 2, ovate, subossex, biloculares, 
seepius disperme aut abortu monospermez, basi imperforate. Radicula supera. 
Cotyledones carnose, planiusculee.—Herbee Huropew, subglaucescentes. Folia ra- 
dicalia in petiolum attenuata, caulina cordato-amplexicaulia. Flores in racemos 
foliaceos subcymbosos dispositi, flavi, sepe purpureo-maculati. De Cand. 
CeRINTHE retorta; glaucescens, foliis eciliatis, pedicellis calyce brevioribus, 
calycis lobis angustis subzequalibus, corollis clavato-cylindraceis apice sub- 
adscendentibus ad faucem constrictis, lobis apice acutis levibus, antheris 
filamento longioribus corollam adzquantibus. De Cand. 
CERINTHE retorta. Sm. in Sibth. Fl. Greca, v. 2. p. 60. p. 171. Prodr. v. 1. 
p. 120. Reichenb. Fl. n. 2326. Icon. Critic. v. 8. f.981. De Cand. Prodr. 
v. 10. p. 4. 
Admirable as is the figure of this plant in the ‘ Flora Greeca,’ 
it scarcely does justice to the colouring of it as cultivated in the 
open air at Kew. ‘The young bracteas in our plant are more 
highly tinted, the corollas are more protruded, and show more of 
the yellow colour of the tube, and this is tipped with dark purple. 
The leaves are glaucous-green, and spotted like those of a Pu/- 
monaria. It is a native of Caria, in the Peloponnesus, where it 
was found by Sibthorpe; and in wooded places in Dalmatia ac- 
cording to Viviani. Lovers of hardy plants will do well to rear 
this in the open borders of their gardens. It is an annual, and 
may be increased by seeds, and should be planted in tufts. Our 
plant was raised from seeds sent to us by Mr. Thompson, of 
Ipswich. 
Descr. A herbaceous plant, one to one and a half or two feet 
high, glabrous, glaucous, branched, chiefly above ; branches terete, 
suberect. Lowest leaves obovato-spathulate petiolate, superior 
ones obovate and amplexicaul, the base having two rounded 
auricles ; in the branches which support the racemes of flowers 
aveust lst, 1861. 
