chrystalline points on their foliage like those of Mrsrmnry- 
ANTHEMUM Chrystallinum ; and, lastly, some with shrubby 
stems, of which, the species here represented is one ex- 
ample. This came to the Glasgow Botanic Garden from 
Messrs. Boor of Hamburgh, as a native of Brazil, under 
the name we have here adopted, although it differs in some 
slight points from the original plant so called by Jacquin ; 
chiefly, however, in the relative length of the stamens and 
styles, and in the colour of the flower, here yellow, there, 
according to Jacguin, “ albo-incarnatus.” Tt is, however, 
unquestionably, the O. polymorpha of Zuccarint, of which 
I possess an authentic specimen from the Berlin Herbarium, 
and judging from various samples I have received from 
Brazil, the plant varies much in the size and breadth of its 
foliage. It requires the heat of the stove, and flowers with 
us in March and April. 
Descr. Stem eight or ten inches to a foot high, woody 
below, and there as thick as a writing-pen, clothed with 
brown, glabrous bark: the young shoots herbaceous, and 
slightly downy. Leaves spreading ; leaflets three, droop- 
ing, rhombeo-ovate, glabrous, the lateral ones smaller and 
on short petioles, the terminal one on a long petiole :— 
petioles and peduncles slightly downy. Peduncles solitary, 
axillary from the upper leaves, about as long as the leaves, 
erect, bifid at the extremity, each branch bearing several 
Jlowers ; there is a solitary one between them, which opens 
first; then one on each branch expands, so that I find on 
every peduncle either one flower or two only open at a 
time : pedicels short. Calyx of five erect, ovato-lanceolate, 
erect, glanduloso-pilose, green sepals, without any glands. 
Petals five, obcordato-cuneate, united by their claws, yel- 
low, with two orange spots at the base of each lamina. 
Stamens ten, monadelphous, five long and five short. Style 
longer than the stamens : Stigmas capitate. 
Fig. 1. Calyx with Stamens and Pistil. 2. The same, with the Calyx 
removed :—magnijied, 
