the summer and autumn. Moist ground would probably 
suit it best, but last season it was moist everywhere, and 
it grew well in exposed, well drained soil. 
Descr.—A vigorous, trailing, somewhat fleshy, peren-. 
nial herb, more or less hairy in the wild state, but almost 
glabrous under cultivation. Stems terete, rooting at the 
joints, flowering-branches ascending; internodes some- 
times longer than the leaves, sometimes very short. Leaves 
mostly opposite, lanceolate or ovate, including the petiole 
one to four inches long, acute, cuneate, or sometimes 
rounded at the base, entire; veins immersed, inconspi- 
cuous. lowers full yellow, about an inch and a quarter in 
diameter, solitary in the axils of the upper, crowded leaves, 
_ or sometimes sub-umbellate, pedicellate. Pedicels mostly 
under half an inch in length, but sometimes elongated. — 
Calyz-lobes almost free, linear-lanceolate, very acute, three 
to four lines long. Corolla rotate; lobes obovate-oblong. 
Stamens half as long as the corolla, spirally unequal in 
length ; filaments connate and papillose almost to the 
middle, filiform above the middle. — Ovary villous ; style 
capitate, about as long as the longest stamen.—W. B. H. 
Fig. 1, floral-leaf, calyx, and pistil ; 2, stamens; 3, pistil :—all enlarged. cet 
