which differs from that by having a calyx an inch anda half 
long instead of half an inch long, six calycine scales instead 
of four, petals that are more deeply and numerously in- 
dented, and all of one colour instead of being tinged with 
violet on both sides at the top. It was raised from seed 
lately imported by Messrs. Lee and Kennedy, of the Ham- 
mersmith nursery, where the drawing was made last No- 
vember. ; : 
Rootstock woody, horizontal, round, sending up several 
flower-stems from different points. Lower leaves subyer- 
ticillated by fours and decussated, uprightly spread, al- 
most imbricant at the lower part, linear, acuminate, very 
narrow, channelled so as to have something of the ap- 
pearance of being four-cornered, about two inches long,. 
roughishly pubescent at the edges, stiffish, mucronate: 
stem ones short, subulate, opposite, and connected by a 
short perfoliate sheath, one pair at each joint. Stems soli- 
tary, about a foot high, round, compressed, slender, as- 
cendent, with longish internodes, the upper one of which 
is about the length of the uppermost pair of leaves; branches 
solitary, one from ‘an axil of each pair of the upper leaves, 
one-flowered. Flowers upright, two inches long, whitish 
with a very faint suffusion of red, self-coloured, smelling 
sweet in the evening. Calycine scales 6, in pairs, fluted, 
ovally Janceolate, with a long sharp subulate point, about 
4 times shorter than the calyx, lower pair narrowest, spha= 
celate, and rather more distant than the two upper. Calyx 
twice or thrice the diameter of the tube of a crow-quill, 
-cylindrical, fluted, an inch and half long, teeth lanceolate 
upright sphacelate at the edge. Petals smooth, 2 inches 
long: ungues rather higher than the calyx, cuneately linear, 
narrow, with a fleshy flattish linear ridge running down 
their middle on the inside: lamin cuneately obovate with 
a broadly tapered point, shallowly and somewhat crenately 
- jagged, the middle fissure deeper than the rest. Anthers 
above the calyx, oblong, cream-coloured. Germen stand- 
ing-on a shaft three times shorter than the calyx, oblong, 
cylindrical, whitish: styles something like the feelers (palpi) 
of an insect, continuous with the stigmas, which reach ta 
near the top of the limb, and are channelled and pubescent 
onthe inside, sometimes twisted spirally, cream-coloureds 
