amongst grass in swampy ground near the sea. From 
those seeds the specimen here figured and others were 
raised. They flowered throughout the summer, bothina — 
cold green-house and out of doors. It is singular that,” — 
though the district in which Mr. Watson found it has — 
been well: explored, no previous collector had found the 
species so far to the southward by several hundred. miles. 
Descr. foot perennial. Stem twelve to eighteen inches 
_ high, stout, terete, green, leafy. Radical leaves densely 
tufted, four to five inches long, very narrowly spathulate, 
obtuse, thick, narrowed into a broad petiole, bright green; 
nerves very indistinct; cauline leaves sessilé, connate by — 
their bases. lowers numerous, in branching leafy cymes; 
pedicels stout, usually about as long as the calyx; floral 
leaves or bracts one to one and a half inches long, linear, 
acute. Calyz half an inch long, narrow ; segments linear- 
lanceolate, acuminate, as long as the tube of the corolla, 
green. Corolla nearly two inches in diameter, bright rose- 
red; segments elliptic, obtuse, concave. Stamens decli- — 
nate; filaments short, stout, about as long as the linear- : 
oblong yellow strongly twisted anthers. Ovary fusiform, — 
_ terete ; style as long, curved; stigma two-fid.—J. D. H. 
Fig. 1, Tube of corolla 
sees and stamen; 2 and 3, stamens; 4, ovary :—all 
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