gee 
long, waved, patent, clawed, purple or rose colour, equal 
in length. Stamens, four longer and two shorter, almost 
equalling the petals in length: Filaments purple. Anthers 
oval, deep purple: Pollen bright yellow. Germen ellip- 
tical, slightly compressed: Style longer than the germen, 
and nearly equal to the petals, green. Stigma obtuse, 
scarcely dilated. Silieula oblongo-obcordate, nearly plane 
above, more convex beneath: Valves keeled: Dissepiment 
semi-ovate. Each cell has about five seeds, which are pen- 
dent, and attached to the marginal receptacle, broadly- 
oval, brown. 
An inhabitant of stony and rocky places in the more 
elevated of the Neapolitan mountains. The seeds from 
which our plants were raised, were sent, by its discoverer, 
Professor T'znore of Naples, to the Glasgow Botanic Gar- 
den. Flowers have now been produced in the months of 
March and April, for two successive years, from the same 
roots, kept under a common frame, in pots. We trust to 
prove, that it is sufficiently hardy to bear our winters; and 
that it may be cultivated like our more common hardy alpine 
plants, to which it will make a most valuable addition: 
the blossoms being both shewy and fragrant ; the fragrance 
more resembling that of the Hetiorrors than any thing I 
“can compare it with. Professor De Canpotte says the 
flowers are white, probably judging from dried specimens. 
They are with us always of a fine purplish rose-colour. 
Fig. 1. Plants natural size. 2. Single flower, with the Petals scarcely 
expanded. 3. Flower fully expanded. 4. Stamens and Pistil. 5 Silicula. 
6. Ditto, with one of the Valves, separating and shewing the situation of the 
Seeds, 7. Seed.—All more or less magnified. . 
