sunny wall in the open air. It has hence proved to be a 
biennial under cultivation, though said to be annual by its 
discoverer. 
Desecr.—Whole plant forming a low, broad cone of 
crowded branches, leaves, and flowers, a foot or more in 
diameter at the base. oot fusiform. Lower leaves four to 
six inches long, spathulately obovate, obtuse, narrowed into 
a broad winged petiole, irregularly coarsely crenate-toothed, 
glabrous, except the minutely spinulosely ciliate margins ; 
upper leaves one to two inches long, sessile, ovate-cordate, — 
crenate. Flowers two or more, erect, shortly stoutly 
pedicelled on the short spreading branches. Calyz-tube 
turbinate; lobes lanceolate, half an inch long, and together 
with the deflexed, ovate, acute appendages spinulosely 
ciliate. Corolla broadly campanulate, two inches broad 
across the mouth, pale lilac; lobes orbicular-ovate, margins 
and back sparsely ciliate with long hairs. Filaments 
‘slender, suddenly dilated at the base into a very broad, 
papillosely ciliate lamina; anthers narrowly linear, free. 
Stigmas three, linear, recurved.—J. D. H. 
Fig. 1, portion of leaf, showing the spinulose margin; 2, stamen:—Both 
enlaryed. 
