August of 1835. It will no doubt bear the open air ex- 
ceedingly well. 
Descr. Root annual. Stem two to three feet high, and, 
as well as the whole plant, glabrous and glaucous, rounded, 
branched in a somewhat paniculated manner, with the 
branches erect. Leaves oblongo-linear, sessile and semi- 
amplexicaul, acuminated, entire, or very obscurely toothed, 
the upper ones gradually narrower. Racemes elongated, 
bearing numerous flowers on short pedicels, green at first 
in the bud, then drooping, and when the flowers are fully 
expanded almost wholly deep bluish-purple. Calyx-leaves 
_ovato-acuminate, coloured greenish only at the apex, sac- 
cate at the base, two opposite ones less so than the other 
two. Petals linear: the claw straight, the limb wavy, 
slightly twisted and reflexed, pale at the apex. Stamens 
six, much exserted. Filameuts subulate, purple, pale below: 
of the two opposite pairs, one pair is short, combined into 
one, forked at the apex, and bearing each an abortive, 
linear anther : the two which are opposite to these are 
distinct, and the longest’ of the six: the two solitary ones 
Intermediate in length, and as well as the two longest ones, 
ring large, subsagittate anthers, of a greenish-purple 
colour with yellow pollen. Pistil shorter than the perfect 
Stamens, linear. Style scarcely any, stigma obtuse. Pod 
long, slender, linear, compressed, with a dorsal line on each 
valve, but not tetragonous. Seeds compressed and mar- 
gined, similar to those of 8. obtusifolius (Bot. Mag. t. 3317.) 
ee 
Fig. 1. Flower. 2. Sepal. 3. Petal. 4, Stamen and Pistil, 5, Pistil. 
6. Pod (nat. size), 7. Seed.—All but fig. 6, magnified. = 
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