tremities, the petals are all directed to one side upwards, 
the stamens and style downwards, and both these latter, 
especially the style, are longer than the petals; the four 
lobes of the stigma are erect and close placed. In our 
plant, the four segments of the calyx are separate and 
reflexed, the petals are erect, the stamens and style equal 
to them in length, the four lobes of the stigma spreading. 
O. parviflora is quite hardy, flowering in August and 
September. 
Descr. Biennial. Stems two to four feet high, erect, 
simple or branched, clothed with soft patent hairs. Leaves 
broadly lanceolate, the lower ones ovato-lanceolate, all of 
them sessile, acuminate, denticulate, more or less downy 
with soft hairs, especially at the margin and on the midrib, 
gradually becoming smaller and narrower upwards, till 
they pass into the small subulate and ciliated bracteas of 
the flowers. Spike elongated, many-flowered. Germen 
fusiform, downy, sessile. Calyx-tube shorter than the ger- 
men, equal in length to the four linear, free, reflexed 
segments. Petals four, small, erect, deep rose-coloured, 
obovate, slightly clawed, of the same length with the erect 
stamens and style. Filaments rose-coloured, inserted below 
the middle of the back of the oblong dark purple anthers : 
Pollen yellow. Style red: stigma four-lobed, the lobes 
ovate, spreading, white. Fruit fusiform, obscurely four- 
angled, constituting an indehiscent nucumentaceous cap- 
sule, four-celled, each cell containing one pendent, obovate 
seed, attached to the inner angle of the cell by a rather 
long seed-stalk : dissepiments thin, membranaceous. 
Fig. 1. Flower, 2. Immature Fruit: magnified, 
