is cultivated in the Royal Botanic Gardens of Kew to great 

 advantage, in a wire basket, with pieces of wood and turf; 

 and suspended from a beam in a moist stove. In such a 

 situation it thrives admirably, and bears its delicate, yel- 

 lowish, or almost primrose-coloured flowers, spotted with 

 purple, copiously. As a species, it is very different from 

 the D. serrulata, Mart, (bicolor, Lindley, Bot. Reg. 1838, 

 t. 4.) in the shape and marking of the flower, in the short 

 peduncle, and especially in the narrow, not cordate, base 

 of the sepals. 



Descr. Subherbaceous, with creeping, hairy, succulent 

 stems, and opposite, elliptical, fleshy, saccated, hairy, and 

 ciliated leaves, on long, hairy, foot-stalks. Peduncles 

 scarcely the third or half-an-inch long, dilated upwards, 

 axillary, solitary, single-flowered, with two small bracteas 

 at the base. Calyx deeply cut into five very unequal seg- 

 ments or sepals, which are between lanceolate and spathu- 

 late, acute, saccated, hairy. Corolla rather large, pale 

 yellow, copiously dotted with purple. Tube gibbous at 

 the base above, dilated upwards, and expanding into a 

 large, oblique, five-lobcd limb; the lobes rounded, fimbri- 

 ated. Stamens four: Anthers free. Ovary hairy, ovate, 

 having at the base a fleshy ring, and a large;, emarginate 

 gland below on the back. Style elongated, downy, as well 

 as the large, obscurely two-lipped stigma. 



Fig. 1. Pistil and hypogynous Ring and Gland. 2. Stigma. 3. Trans- 

 verse section of the Ovary : — magnified. 



