frame, where it has hitherto thriven better than in the open 
border or rockwork ; itis, however, doubtless quite hardy, and 
would succeed equally well out of doors, where, from its beauty 
and early flowering, it is sure to become a great favourite. 
Drscr. Whole plant six to ten inches high, erect. oot 
perennial, fusiform. Mower-stem leafy, robust. Leaves all 
ciliate, and sparsely hairy with long simple or forked hairs ; 
radical forming a lax rosette three to four inches in diameter, 
spreading, one to two and a half inches long, petioled, 
obovate-spathulate, obtuse, irregularly sinuate or toothed, 
dark green above, paler beneath ; cauline leaves shorter, sessile, 
linear-oblong, obtuse, serrate or toothed, base rounded or 
slightly auricled. Flowering-racemes about two inches long, 
and nearly as broad, rounded at the apex; pedicels half an 
inch long, slender, spreading, erect in fruit. lower three- 
quarters of an inch in diameter. Sepals erect, linear-oblong, 
obtuse. Petals with a short claw and broadly obovate retuse 
rose-coloured limb. /%/aments slender; anthers small. Pod 
one to one and a half inches long, nearly one-eighth of an inch. 
broad, erect, slightly curved, linear; valves obtuse at both 
ends, rather coriaceous, margined, convex over the seeds; 
midrib and waved lateral nerves very strong, giving the 
surface a grooved appearance; style very short, conical; 
stigma minute. Seeds, about eight to ten in each cell, 
1-seriate, orbicular, much compressed, brown, not winged.— 
P pe Lays & 
Fig. 1, Flower with calyx and anthers removed; 2, ovary , 3, immature 
capsule :—all magnified. 
