inches high. Leaves crowded at the base of the stems, few and 

 alternate above, four to six inches long, narrow linear in out- 

 line, pinnatisect ; segments one-sixth to one-fourth of an inch 

 long, spreading, elliptic, entire or bipartite, when the seg- 

 ments appear as if whorled in fours, quite entire, subacute ; 

 stem-leaves with fewer and narrower segments. Flowers one 

 to one and a quarter inch long, in loose thyrsiform racemes, 

 sessile or the lower pedicelled, suberect, upper crowded, 

 lower distant ; lower bracts foliaceous longer than the flowers, 

 upper reduced and tripartite or trifid Calyx eylindric ; ( five- 

 cleft nearly to the base ; segments narrowly linear, acuminate. 

 Corolla pale primrose or straw-coloured, tube slender, almost 

 twice as long as the calyx, somewhat dilated upwards ; limb 

 nearly flat, of five short rounded apiculate lobes. Stamens in- 

 serted on the throat of the corolla, filaments short, suberect, 

 glabrous ; anthers small, didymous. Ovary subglobose ; style 

 very slender, straight, glabrous, with three short slender awns 

 at the tip ; ovules few. — J. D. II 



Fig. 1, Bract and longitudinal section of flower : — enlarged. 



