a very sunny exposure, and bears watering as freely as a 
common Geranium. It may be propagated by cuttings, 
taken from the tips only of its youngest, not flowering, 
shoots. 
A little shrub, about a span bigh, erect, branched; the 
branchlets usually ascending or erect, filiform, hard, always 
roughish, with little dot-shaped persistent points or scales, 
which become, viewed through a magnifying glass, or by a 
strong eye, pale. Leaves distant, nearly half an inch long, 
obtuse, rounded, a very little flattened above, shining, with 
little points, green. Flowers terminal, solitary, bright red, 
nearly an inch in diameter. Peduncles about an inch long, 
filiform, a little thickened upwards. Calyx with five nearly 
equal segments, which are revolute, very obtuse, with or 
without a membrane, as in many others. Petals a few, in 
two rows, acute, entire, under the afternoon sun revolute, 
recurved; the inner narrower, erect, with their ends ex- 
panded, pale at the base, like the filaments rose-coloured. 
Stamens erect, clustered, or a few only, which have shed 
their pollen, curved outwards. Anthers pale, lower than 
the petals. Styles 5, the length of the filaments, at the end 
spreading or expanded, bright red. 
J. L. 
