beauty. In the Glasgow Botanic Garden it flowers at the 
same season as in Naples; but under the protection of a 
frame, during the previous winter months. It is, however, 
well suited to ornament rock-work, when it would probably 
produce its blossoms a few weeks later. The seeds were 
communicated by Professor Trenore, from Naples. 
Descr. Roof small, annual. Stem erect, three or four 
inches high when in flower, much elongated in fruit, usu- 
ally simple, more or less slightly oe with bi-tripartite 
hairs. Leaves also rough with similar hairs: the lower ones 
spathulate, rather crowded, the rest remote, cordate, am- 
plexicaul, all coarsely toothed. Flowers three to four, ter- 
minal. Pedicels smooth, short. Calyx of four linear-oblong, 
erect, hairy leaflets. Petals obovate-spathulate, bright 
purple, tapering gradually into pale yellow claws. Stamens, 
the four longer ones much dilated, the two shorter ones with 
a distinct tooth below the middle. Anthers small, yellow. 
Young /ruit linear, elongated, slightly hispid. Stigma 
scarcely two-lobed. 
Fig. 1. Flower. 2. Flower from which the Calyx and Corolla are removed. 
3. Petal :—magnified. 
