as resembling a strawberry, and edible. It ree ie 
duced by Mr. Bull, who sent a specimen » a ae 
named as a plant yielding a good edible sore Fe a 
from which our figure was made was sees i Road 
received in 1886 from W. J. Horn, Ksq., of Ous oa ‘ 
Balham, who collected the seeds with those Pe aa 
other interesting plants, notably the showy r chat (a 
dantha, figured t. 7331. Mr. Watson informs me oa 
forms a compact little shrub, and flowers freely in spring o 
the Temperate House of the Royal Gardens. — 
escr.—A small, much-branched shrub, wi be 
stout, terete, hirtellous branches and branchlets. a ' 
about an inch long, ovate, acuminate, acute, or io boo 
obtuse, dark green, glabrous and shining above, er 
neath with red midrib and nerves, and with hairy g : 
at the axils of the nerves and midrib. Flowers “ 
numerous, in globose, terminal, peduncled heads, on saa 
one and a half inches in diameter ; peduncle one to an 
inches long, stout, decurved, hirtellous, bearing one a 
sears of fallen bracts. Calyces minute, densely ee ie 
sessile on a fleshy receptacle, surrounded by severa ‘s e 
clavate, truncate, ciliate bracteoles, each of which ae hae 
oblong, dorsal gland; tube of calyx produced abot e 
ovary, 5-toothed, ciliate. Corolla about one-third ae 
inch long; tube rose-red, glabrous, slender below - 
middle, then obovoid, narrowly funnel-shaped, pubes . 
within, as are the five short Ovate, spreading, green lo i — 
within the mouth of the corol ; i 
filaments very Short, Migerted at the entire ‘hase of “a : 
oblong anther; connective shortly produced. Ovary o-— 
. in | 
celled ; » Stigma clavate ; ovules one 
3 style slender, exserted 
each cell, pendulous. Fruit succulent, edible.—J. D. H. 
Silla 
back of leaf with 
: a 
Fig. 1, Portion of the gland at the axil of the pore f the a 
costa ; 2, calyces and @ corolla; 3, section of portion of the receptacle 
°a 
head, with 3 Ovaries, one cut vertically, showing the ovules, also the bracteole 
at the base of the two other ovaries ; 
4, a bracteole ; 5, upper part of corolla 2 
laid open :—Al enlarged, 
