Tenore, and the mountains above Amalfi, at an elevation of 
3500 feet. The specimen figured was presented by Mr. Maw, 
and flowered in the Royal Gardens in March last. Mr. Maw 
informs me that Mr. F. N. Reid, of Minori, is the collector 
and introducer of the plant from the mountains not far 
from Minori. eae 
Duscr. Densely tufted; shoots perennial, hard. Leaves, 
radical glabrous, forming rosettes one-half to one inch in 
diameter, densely coriaceous, cuneate-obovate, obtuse, not 
keeled below, ciliate at the base, margin and tip cartilagi- 
nous, and marked with a series of pits covered with a 
white calcareous incrustation. Flowering-stems two to four 
inches high, stout, glandular-pubescent, laxly clothed with 
erect appressed linear obtuse glandular-pubescent cauline 
leaves. Flowers corymbose, shortly pedicelled, one-half to 
three-quarters of an inch in diameter; pedicels and calyces 
clothed with black glandular hairs. Calya campanulate, 
_cleft to the middle, lobes ovate acute. Petals obovate, five 
to seven-nerved, spreading and recurved, white. Stamens 
much shorter than the petals, filaments subulate. Styles 
conical, stout, erect, stigmas terminal. Capsule broadly 
ovoid.— J. D. H, 
Fig. 1, Portion of leaf; 2, calyx; 3, stamen; 4, ovary :—all enlarged. | 
