straight. Leaves sprinkled on both sides with harsh, erect 
hairs, duplicato-dentate, coarsely veined and reticulate; 
root-leaves ovate, decurrent upon petioles longer than them- 
selves, and on the upper part of which there are a few small 
pinne ; stem-leaves sessile, the lower ones oblong, and 
somewhat attenuated at the base, higher up cordate and 
more acute, and gradually passing into cordate, acute, — 
bracteas, with reflected aculei on the margin and on the — 
back of the middle rib. Flowers scattered along nearly — 
the whole length of the stem, on short peduncles in the 
axils of the bracteas, they expand in succession, and slowly, — 
from below upwards. Peduncles solitary, bearing three — 
flowers, of which the terminal one only has expanded. | 
Calyx consisting of ten segments which are acute, at first” 
erect, afterwards spreading at right angles, reflected in the — 
sides and fringed with reflected aculei, and of ten other 
segments, which extend backwards along the pedicel, flat 
and shorter, but in other respects similar to the first ten, 
and alternating with them. Corolla white, much longer 
than the calyx, ten-parted, segments (one inch long, one— 
line broad) linear, revolute, reflected in the edges, and 
ciliated with reflected aculei along the middle rib. Stamens 
ten ; flaments connivent, subulate, winged, wings reflected, 
villous ; anthers as long as the filaments, linear, yellow, : 
bursting along their sides ; pollen yellow. Germen top- 
shaped, inferior, ribbed, ten-locular. Style stout, straight, 
longer than the stamens, pubescent. Stigma ten-parted, 
revolute. Ovules very numerous, attached to a large, cen-_ 
tral receptacle. The whole plant yields, on the slightest 
injury, a large quantity of milky juice. : 
Seeds of this plant, which is ‘a native of the North of 
Persia, were communicated to the Botanic Garden of Edin- 
burgh by Dr. Fiscuer, in March, 1829, and the same spe- 
cimen has been in flower with us in the open border for 
about two months after the middle of Augist. Even yet, 
(16th October,) the flowers are not expanded much above 
_ half way up the stem, and I have no doubt the plant would 
_ have continued in blossom till the frost cut it down, but for 
an injury which it has accidentally received. Graham. 
Fig. 1. Stamen. 2, Section of a portion of the Germen. 3. Portion of 
_ the Calyx, seen from beneath. 4. Extremity of the Segment of the Corolla, 
seen from beneath.— Magnified. : ae 
