The Royal Gardens are indebted for this beautiful plant to 
G. Maw, Esq., who collected it at Tangiers in the early spring 
of the present year, and transmitted it to Kew with many other 
most interesting herbaceous plants: it flowered in the month 
of July. 
Descr. Annual, covered with glandular hairs, tufted. Stem 
stout, inclined, ascending, as thick as a crow-quill, leafy, ex- 
cessively corymbosely branched at the top. Leaves half an 
inch to two-thirds of an inch long, spreading, curved, very 
thick and fleshy, terete, obtuse, green, covered with short red 
streaks, tips red-brown. Flowers most abundantly produced, 
shortly pedicelled. Calyx-lobes lanceolate, one-third of an inch 
long. Corolla between funnel- and salver-shaped, golden 
yellow, tube half an inch long, streaked with red, lobes spread- 
ing, ovate, apiculate, golden yellow, with red-brown tips and 
scattered spots. Stamens on the throat of the corolla, ex- 
serted. Hypogynous glands slender, linear, bifid. Carpels very 
slender, with diverging filiform styles.—J. D. H. 
Fig. 1, leaf; 2, flower; 3, corolla, tube, and stamens; 4, anther; 5, ovary 
and scales :—all magnified. 
