petals. We owe the possession of this plant at the Royal 
Gardens to Mr. Standish. It may be kept in a cool greenhouse 
in an ordinary frame or pit. 
Duscr. The root seems creeping. The stem slender, angled, 
copiously branched in a pinnated manner, a foot or a foot and a 
half long. Leaves very numerous, oval or oblong, mucronate, 
striated, glaucous beneath. Peduncles single : flowers one from 
the axil of each leaf, pendent, and these in a measure concealed 
by the foliage. The anthers are curious, sagittate, opening by 
a pore at the base of each cell, bent down upon the filament, so 
that the base of the anther becomes superior. 
Fig. 1. Leaf and flower. 2. Stamens and pistil. 3. Pistil. 4. Section of 
. Ovary. 5. Single stamen :—all more or less magnified, 
