Primroses. It grows readily in peat and loam, but is 

 scarcely to be propagated except by cuttings of the root. 



Although this is probably not of uncommon occurrence in 

 Brazil, it appears to have been hitherto undescribed ; the 

 obscure E. pubescens of Willdenow, to whose character it 

 nearly approaches, having heart-shaped leaves. We have 

 named it with reference to the coloured eye of the corolla, 

 which, being deep rosy red in the centre, with five starry 

 lobes, bordered with a sort of orange-yellow, gives a strik- 

 ing appearance to the flowers. 



It belongs to the genus in its strictest sense, as defined 

 and most skilfully limited by Dr. Brown. In the dissections 

 in the accompanying plate, figure 1 represents the style 

 and stigma, and the five scales that surround the ovary; 

 fig. 2, a perpendicular section of a part of the calyx and co- 

 rolla, shewing the relative position of the ovary, style, stigma, 

 anthers, and contracted part of the tube of the corolla. 



