wealthy and even the poorer classes who inhabit the out- 

 skirts of our great towns. A distribution of Buch succulent 

 plants as these, would give far more enduring pleasure to 

 the poorer classes, than the Geraniums and Verbenas of the 

 parks, given away at the end of the season, when it is almost 

 impossible to keep them alive without heat and glass, and 

 quite impossible to flower them. 



Descr. A stout, succulent perennial, two to three feel 

 high, with rather glaucous, terete stem and scape, and dark- 

 green foliage; ymng leave* and shoots covered with a fine 

 velvety pubescence. Leaves opposite, rather crowded, decus- 

 sate, three to five inches long, oblong-obovate or subpandu- 

 ritorm, obtuse, cordate and semiamplexicaul at the base \ 

 thick quite smooth, even, nerveless; nun-ins quite entire 

 edged with brown towards the tip. Scape erect, strut. 

 Panicle subcorymbose, flat-headed, branched, open; branch- 

 lets nearly horizontal. Flowers pedicelled, pendulous Calvx 

 broad green with short, deltoid teeth. Corolla-tub one 

 inch long pale green below, yellow above; lobes as long as 

 the tube, ineai-oblong, subacute, spreading, bright yeUow 

 with purple margins Stamens exserted) fikSnenl ver^ 

 broad at the base; anthers striate. Squamulce connate shoi4 

 spreading. Styles filiform.— J. I). II. ' ' 



Kg 1 Lobes of corolla and stamen. 2. Stamen. ?,. Ovan—all 

 magnified. • ' 



