the foliage. The Glasgow Garden has received it from the 
Berlin Garden, but without a name, and from that of Clare- 
mont under the appellation here adopted. Of its history, I 
regret to say I know nothing: it is probably a native of 
Mexico. The flowers are produced copiously in the green- 
house, in the summer and autumn months. 
Descr. Succulent, suffruticose. Barren stems short, 
thickly clothed with rosulate tufts of fleshy leaves, of a 
brownish-green colour and glaucous hue, two to four inches 
long, in form between lanceolate and linguiform, slightly 
concave above, convex and keeled beneath, the margin 
white and cartilaginous : flowering stems nearly a foot high, 
rounded, glaucous, sparingly leafy, with leaves of the same 
shape as those of the barren stems, but narrower and gra- 
dually becoming smaller. Raceme elongated, many-flow- 
ered. Pedicels curved. Calyx 5-partite, fleshy, glaucous, 
the segments ovato-lanceolate, very sharp-pointed. Corolla 
red, of five, erect, carinated petals, gibbous at the base, and 
there united so as to appear monopetalous. Stamens ten, 
five at the base of the petals, and alternate with them, five 
shorter ones inserted a little above the middle of the petals. 
Hypogynous glands five, small, white, fleshy, one at the 
ase of each germen.  Pistils five, standing close, erect: 
Germen ovate, tapering into a rather short, slender style : 
Stigma obtuse. 
Fig. 1. Flower, with the Corolla laid open, 2. Sj sect weith tha 
Gland at the base :—magnified. pen. 2. Single Pisti , Wi 
