is pecularly lurid and purplish, beneath, and the young leaves 
entirely, more purple. Peduncles axillary or terminal, solitary, 
generally shorter than the leaf, one- or two-flowered, bearing at 
the extremity, immediately at the base of the ovary, a pair of 
opposite, subulate dracteoles. Flowers moderately large. Calyx 
purple, very downy. Zwse obconical, purple; “mé of four, 
spreading, broad, ciliated, dotted, concave segments. Petals 
four, nearly orbicular, concave, ciliated, white, externally deeply 
tinged with rose-red; they are faintly striated and strongly dot- 
ted. Stamens numerous, arising from a pulvinate ring at the 
mouth of the calyx-tube. Filaments white: anthers subrotund, 
yellow. Ovary inferior, two-celled. Style as long as the stamens, 
subulate. 
Fig. 1. Petal. 2. Flower from which the petals and stamens are removed. 
3. Transverse section of the ovary :—magnified. , 
: Tn our May Number, Tab. 4781, we have spoken of Desfontainia spinosa as 
introduced by the Messrs. Veitch “to our greenhouses ;” we should have said, 
“ to our gardens and shrubberies,” for it has proved perfectly hardy in the Exeter 
Nursery during four winters. 
