It flowers readily in a cool greenhouse, and would probably 

 bear the open air. 



Descr. Perennial. Stems six to eight inches bug, slender, 

 weak, in our plants ascending or snbdecumbent, simple, Blender, 

 leafy at every joint. Leave* ternateh rertirillate, broad, rotun- 

 dato-cuneate, concave abow, convex beneath, crenato-dentate at 

 the very obtuse apex, very glaucous, and strongly tinged with 

 reddish-purple, especially the interior leaves; m gra- 



dually smaller. 0////e-v compound, terminal, rather bright rose- 

 purple; calyx small, of five fleshy sepals. Petals thrice long 

 than sepals, ovate, spreading. Stamen* longer than the petals. 

 Filament* filiform, alternately shorter. Pistils five; yemens 

 ovate, tapering into the moderately long style. Stigma punc- 

 tiform. l 



Fig. 1. Flower,— magnified. 



