its name, describing these as “integris v. utrinque 
1—2-dentato-lobatis.” 
M. coronopifolia appears to be a very local plant, confined 
to Sicily, and though some authors cite localities for it in 
Continental Italy, Arcangeli gives only one, “ Parcoe a 
Cattolico.” The specimen here figured was raised from 
seed supplied by Mr. Siindermann of Lindau, Bodensee, 
Bavaria; it flowered freely and ripened seeds in the 
rockery of the Royal Gardens, Kew. 
Descr.—A small, branching, perennial herb, or almost 
an undershrub, covered uniformly with a hoary pubescence 
of stellate hairs, with here and there a few gland-tipped 
hairs; branches leafy, straggling, and ascending. Leaves 
two to three inches long, linear-oblong, very irregularly 
sinuate-lobed or sub-pinnatifid, rarely (except in young 
plants) entire; lobes usually more or less incurved, obtuse. 
ftacemes spiciform from the shortness of the pedicels, few- 
or many-fid. Sepals narrow, obtuse, one half to three- 
quarters of an inch long; margins membranous, glabrous. 
Petals with the limb of a clear, vinous purple colour, deeper 
towards the claw, as long as or longer than the sepals, 
linear-oblong, obtuse, strongly waved. Filaments naked; 
anthers narrow. Pod three to four inches long, slender, 
flexuous, sub-terete ; stigma three-lobed, or with two or all 
_ the lobes produced into short horns. Seeds oblong, com- 
pressed, with a narrow, hyaline wing.—J. D. H. 
Fig. 1, portion of leaf showing the stell i 
“ies : g the stellate pubescence and gland-tipped 
ye 2, stellate hairs; 3, calyx; 4, stamens and pistil; 5, anther; 6, pod; 
» interior of pod and seeds :—all but fig. 6 enlarged, 
