botanists who, like Caruel (in Parl. Fl. Ital. vol. ix. 
p. 795), regard M. glabra, DC. (M. glabrata, DC.), as a 
variety of M. incana, Br., the parent of the Brompton and 
other races of garden Stocks. 
M. sinuata, var. oyensis, is a native of the Ile d@Yeu 
(latine Insula Oya), off the coast of La Vendée, where it 
grows associated with the typical form; thus strongly 
favouring the view of its affinities here adopted. Seeds of 
it were received at Kew from Messrs. Vilmorin-Andrieux & — 
Co., of Paris, early in 1899, and the plants raised flowered 
in the open ground in June of the same year. Mr. R.1. ~ 
Lynch also sent flowering specimens from the Cambridge _ 
Botanie Garden. It may be mentioned that the name © 
oyensis has been corrupted in gardens to “ ohiensis” and 
* chinensis.” Both M. incana and M. sinuata are now 
found growing wild in Britain; the former on cliffs in 
the Isle of Wight, and the latter on the coasts of Devon, 
Cornwall, and Wales ; but neither is regarded as indigenous 
or aboriginal. 
Deser,—An annual or biennial, branching, green herb, 
one to two feet high, somewhat sparsely furnished with 
stalked glands on the stems, leaves, calyces and pods, but 
quite destitute of the dense, felt-like, greyish tomentum, 
characteristic of typical M. sinuata. Leaves alternate (of 
the stem only present in our specimens) oblong-lane , 
linear-lanceolate, or the upper ones quite linear, furnished © 
with two or three small lobes on each side, or quite entire, 
obtuse, narrowed downwards into a more or less distinct, 
though short petiole. Flowers white, very fragrant, espe- 
cially in the evening, about an inch and a half in diameter, 
in stiff, terminal racemes. Sepals unequal at the base, 
narrowly oblong, very obtuse. Petals having avery narrow 
claw, and a wavy limb, dilated upwards, and notched or 
shallowly two-lobed at the top. Pod straight, two or 
three inches long, many-seeded. Seeds oval, much com- 
pressed, uniformly pale brown, and furnished with a 
narrow, white, membranous or scarious, marginal wing.— _ 
W. Botting Hemsley. | = 
Fig. 1, a flower-bud; 2, portion of sepal; 3, androecium and gyneceum; i 
4, a stamen ; 5, pistil :—Al/ enlarged. 
