to Fugosia; for there seems to be no generic distinction. The 
present species was originally found in the Island of St. Thomas 
and on the banks of the Orinoco. Its specific name is derived 
from the varying form of the leaves, very evident in our dried 
specimens, but less remarkable in cultivated ones. 
Descr. A rather twiggy, erect, branching, glabrous shrud ; 
the young dranches herbaceous, terete. Leaves alternate, some- 
what remote, upon rather long slender footstalks, oval or oblong, 
obtuse or acute, entire, waved, three or five-nerved at the base. 
Stipules small, subulate, deciduous. Peduncles solitary, axillary, 
single-flowered, longer than the leaf, singularly thickened upwards, 
and articulated to the base of the calyx, where there are about 
five, small, subulate bracts forming an involucre. Calyx of five 
lanceolate, much acuminated pieces or sepals, three-ribbed, with 
conspicuous black glands placed in rows or series between the 
ribs. Corolla of five broadly cuneate, oblique and imbricated, 
almost twisted pefals, tapering into a short claw, of a yellow 
colour, with a deep blood-coloured blotch, which, on being seen 
with a microscope (fig. 3), is found to arise from five deep blood- 
coloured spots, each pectinated or marked with parallel lines or 
rays resembling the teeth of a comb. Filaments often bifid. 
Anthers reniform, one-celled. Ovary ovate, glabrous, three-celled, 
with several seeds arranged in two rows in each cell. Style gradu- 
ally widening upwards and there red. Stigmas five, small, erect. 
Fig. 1. Flower, the petals scarcely expanded. 2. Portion of a sepal, to show 
the glands. 3. Petal. 4. Pistil. “5. Ovary, cut through transversely, to show 
the ovules :—more or less magnified. 
