The figure in Willkomm's Icones gives no idea either of 

 the beauty or habit of the plant ; it was confessedly executed 

 from dried specimens, and represents the flowers as white. 



Descr. A low, perennial, glabrous, glaucous, tufted herb. 

 Stems densely dichotomous, branched, two to four inches 

 long, leafy below. Lotvest leaves linear, obtuse ; middle ones 

 ovate-lanceolate, half an inch to three-quarters of an inch 

 long, subacute, sessile, connate at the base ; upper smaller, 

 lanceolate. Peduncles terminal and in the forks, one to two 

 inches long, strict, erect ; lateral ones with two minute bracts, 

 middle naked. Flowers two-thirds of an inch in diameter, 

 produced in profusion. Calyx clavate, obscurely striate, half 

 an inch long, green and dull red. Petals clawed ; blade 

 pale rose-colour, with two white acute scales at the base, re- 

 tuse and slightly erose at the apex. Styles three to five. 

 Seeds with a woolly strophiolus. — T.I). H. 



Fig. 1. Petal. 2. G-ynophore and ovary : — loth mac/7iified. 



