Descr. Annual. Stems about a foot high, dichotomously 
branched, weak, but nearly erect, clothed as are the leaves, but chiefly 
on the nerves, with thin inconspicuous pubescence, mixed with 
many pungent sete. Leaves alternate, pale green, membranaceous, 
the lower ones two to three inches long, petiolate (petioles setose), 
rhombeo-ovate, acuminate, acutely lobed and serrated ; upper or 
floral leaves sessile, lanceolate, coarsely serrated, the uppermost 
(decidedly 4racteas) almost linear, subulate, entire. Racemes 
leafy. Pedicels elongated, drooping, setose. Flowers large (for 
the size of the plant), drooping. Ovary cylindrical, very hispid. 
Calyx-segments ovate, acuminate, ikea Petals reflexed, 
obovate, acute, cucullate, hispid at the back, their colour bright 
yellow in-the lower half, the rest white. Nectaries or petaloid 
scales ovato-acuminate, bifid at the point, the base cucullate, 
white, beautifully mottled with red. W. J. H. 
Cut. Little ig i to be said respecting the cultivation of 
this plant, as it is, like the rest of the genus, a tender annual. 
It should be sown in April in a frame or pit, and by the end of 
May it will be safe to turn it out in the flower-borders. We 
know too little of it yet, to enable us to speak of its merits; but 
it will probably make a pretty bed in the flower garden. J. 8. 
Fig. 1 and 2. Outer and inner view of a petaloid scale ;~—magniied. 
