only known in our gardens through Messrs. Veitch, whe received 
seeds last year from Mr. William Lobb, and this year (1853) 
beautiful tufts of it attracted attention at the Chiswick Horticul- 
tural Show. 
Desor. A hardy annual, six to eight or ten inches high. 
Stems weak, filiform, purple-red, branched, clothed with soft, 
spreading hairs. Branches opposite, flexuose. Leaves opposite, 
chiefly at the setting on of the branches, spreading, sessile, pal- 
mately and deeply five- to seven-cleft, the segments narrow, 
fleshy, ciliated, linear or spathulate. FV/owers all terminal, capi- 
tate, erect, bracteated ; bracteas opposite, resembling the leaves 
in shape, but larger, and with longer and subulate lobes. Calyx 
glanduloso-hirsute ; lobes erect, lanceolate, subulate. Corolla 
yellow, with the tube an inch and a half to nearly two inches 
long, very slender, filiform, slightly curved. Zzmé of five spread- 
ing oval lobes, orange-coloured at the mouth. Stamens exserted, 
orange. Ovary oval. Style a little longer than the tube. 
Stigmas three, large, linear. 
Fig. 1. Calyx. 2. Stamen. 3. Pistil. 4. Section of an ovary :—magnified. 
