spots surrounding an orange-coloured eye in the centre. The 
species blooms during the summer months, continuing long in 
flower if sufficiently supplied with moisture. 
Derscr. Root annual, fibrous, slender. Stem two to five or 
six inches long, slender, filiform, glabrous, or with spreading 
hairs, erect and nearly simple, or spreading more or less, often 
very much and dichotomously branched; in the latter case 
many-flowered. eaves opposite, connate at the base, in dis- 
tant pairs, narrow, linear, hairy, and ciliate in the lower half. 
Peduncles short, erect, slender, hairy, terminal and axillary, so- 
_ litary, single-flowered. Flowers erect. Calyz of five linear seg- 
ments, which are unequal in length, hairy on the back: the tu- 
bular portion is membranous between the segments. Corolla 
rotate, large in proportion to the size of the plant; ¢wée short: 
limb of five, obovate, acute, spreading lobes, of a delicate lilac 
colour, sharply dentato-serrate at the margin: at the base of 
each segment is a dark, blood-coloured spot; and the mouth of 
the tube is orange-yellow. Stamens five, equal, inserted near 
the base of the tube: filaments slender, subulate. Anthers oval, 
orange-coloured. Ovary ovate. Style a little longer than the 
tube. Stigmas three, linear. 
Fig. 1. Flower. 2. Calyx and pistil. 3. Ovary. 4. The same cut through 
transversely. 5. Leaves :—magnified. 
