coloured flowers, bordered with crimson, and fully two inches 
long. 
According to Alphonse DeCandolle this shrub is found 
in dry places in Wallo and Senegambia, where it is commonly 
called “ Honghel ;” we also have it from the late Mr. Forbes, 
who found it at Delagoa Bay. It would, therefore, appear to 
be widely dispersed through Africa and the neighbouring part 
of Asia. Its fruit, on Mr. Forbes's specimen, consists of a 
pair of slender diverging hoary follicles, each about four 
inches long. 
Fig. 1. represents the calyx, and a part of the corolla cut 
open to shew the long-tailed anthers, and five rows of glan- 
dular hairs which grow on the corolla alternate with the 
stamens ; 2. is a stamen seen from within; 3. is a section of 
the ovary, style, and stigma. 
At present little is known of the habit of this; but it 
seems to be a plant of easy culture, requiring a dry stove, 
where it can be fully exposed to bright sunshine. It grows 
well in a mixture of peat, loam, and sand, when the pot is 
well drained. Being a plant of slow growth it does not re- 
quire much water at any period of the year, and should be 
kept almost dry after the leaves have fallen off, the plant being 
in a resting state. All plants having thick fleshy stems like 
this, are formed by nature for those parts of the world where 
they are periodically subjected to extremes of dryness, and 
unless we treat them as nature herself does, we cannot expect 
to be successful in their cultivation. 
