having three red nerves. Flowers in threes, collected into 
dense terminal, panicles, upon the stems and branches, with 
small, leaf-like bractee at the base of the divisions. . Calyx 
purple, cylindrical, an inch or an inch and a half long, very 
glandular and viscid, five-toothed, and having ten striz. 
Petals five: Claw very long; limb very small, deep rose 
colour, linear, recurved between the teeth of the calyx, 
bidentate, at their base having a bipartite gland or nectary. 
Stamens ten. Anthers purple, roundish. Pistil: Germen 
on ashort, thick pedicel, green, with a longitudinal furrow 
on each side: Styles two, filiform, as long as the stamens, 
purple at the extremity: Stigmas acute. The fruit I have 
not seen, but the germen is evidently two-celled. 
An inhabitant of the Taurian mountains, according to 
Bieserstein, its original discoverer, growing along the mar- 
ope of woods in sterile places, particularly abundant about 
emirdschi. I possess a specimen from Sreser’s Cretan 
collection, gathered at Lassiti, which differs in no respect 
from that here figured, but in being smaller, and having 
the leaves narrower, and the radical ones upon longer pe- 
tioles. It is a very desirable plant for the garden. The 
flowers, though small, are of a vivid red, and the purple 
calyces and stems and nerves to the leaves have a rich 
effect. 
Cultivated in the Glasgow Botanic Garden, where it was 
raised from seeds sent by Dr. Fiscuer from St. Petersburg. 
It flowers in the month of June. 
sad 1. Flower. 2. Petal. 3. Pistil, 4, Section of a Germen—Mag- 
nified, : 
