For the seeds of this pretty plant, the Royal Gardens are 
indebted to Baron Von Mueller. When sown in a pot of 
earth standing in water they vegetated in profusion, and in a 
few months the surface of the pot was clothed with a thick — 
mass of bright green foliage studded with primrose-coloured 
flowers which appeared in succession for some weeks in the 
open air. : 
Descr. Erect, glabrous; stem three to six inches high, 
simple or nearly so, with two or three leaves, rather stout 
and fleshy. Leaves one-fourth to three-fourths of an inch in 
diameter, long-petioled, orbicular obovate or broadly ovate, 
quite entire or sinuate-toothed, bright green; petiole 1-4 
inches long, sheathing at the base. owers pedicelled, 
in terminal involucrate heads ; outer involucral bracts spathu- 
late, inner ovate obtuse concave, rather gibbous beneath, 
glabrous hairy or villous; bracteoles on the pedicels minute. 
Calye of 5 spreading ovate-lanceolate hairy divisions. 
Corolla, one-half to three-fourths of an inch in diameter, bright 
yellow ; throat hairy, lobes much longer than the calyx, 
broadly oblong, bifid, the teeth and sinus between them 
acute, margins erose or toothed. Stamens inserted in the 
corolla-tube, filaments short; anther oblong. Hypogynous 
glands subulate, with a pencil of hairs at the tip. Ovary 
narrowly ovoid, narrowed into an erect style with two oblong 
or sputhulate stigmatic lobes; placentas parietal near the 
base of the cell. Capsule surrounded by the marcescent calyx 
and corolla, many-seeded. Seeds discoid, quite smooth and 
shining.— J. D. H. 
Fig. 1, leaf; 2, outer involucral leaf; 3, back view of flower; 4, part of corolla, 
and two stamens; 5, anther; 6, ovary and hypognous glands; 7, hypogynous 
glands; 8 and 9, stigmas; 10, transverse 11, vertical section of ovary; 12, 
young seed :—all enlarged. 
