known species, a native of the mountains of Sardinia, to 
which it was long assumed to be confined. The specimens 
here figured were, however, supposed to be raised from seeds 
gathered by G. Maw, Hsq., in the Escorial in Spain (as he 
believes), and kindly communicated by him to the Royal 
Gardens, where they produced plants that flowered in June 
last, and were named by Mr. Baker. I state that this is 
Mr. Maw’s impression regarding the origin of this plant; 
but knowing, as I do, the danger there is of the seeds of 
annuals becoming mixed, there may be room for doubt. 
Unfortunately my friend is now on a horticultural tour in 
the Pyrenees, so that I cannot refer my suspicions to him. 
Descr. Whole plant covered with minute gland-tipped 
hairs. Roof annual, of slender fibres. Stems two to six 
inches high or long, suberect, decumbent or ascending, 
simple or forked. Leaves scattered, sessile, one-third to two- 
thirds of an inch long, linear-oblong, obtuse, cylindric, 
rather contracted upwards ; base quite simple. /Vowers one- 
third of an inch in diameter; usually alternate on short 
recurved simple or forked terminal cymes, pale-red purple ; 
pedicels slender, about as long as the flower. Sepals broadly 
ovate, subacute. Petals twice or thrice as long as the calyx, 
elliptic, acute, keeled. S¢amens rather shorter than the petals ; 
filaments slender; anthers minute, purple. Carpels erect; 
many seeded; style slender, one-twelfth of an inch long; 
stigma minute. Seeds oblong, smooth, striate.—/J. D. H. 
Fig. 1, Leaf; 2, flower; 3, ditto, with the petals and stamens removed :— 
all magnified. 
