inland. The Royal Gardens are indebted to M. Goeze, of 
the Botanical Gardens of Coimbra, for seeds and living plants ; 
as also to Mr. Darwin, to whom they were sent by Mr. G. 
Maw, who collected them himself on the coast of Marocco. 
The plant flowered at Mr. Darwin’s and at Kew in April 
of the present year. 
Desor. Whole plant, except the leaf-base, inside of sepals, 
petals, stamens and ovary, covered: with purple, pedicelled, 
viscid glands. Stem woody, two to three inches high, as 
thick as the little finger, rough with the old leaf bases. 
Leaves crowded at the top of the stem, four to eight inches 
long, spreading, one-eighth of an inch broad, gradually 
narrowed to the apex. Flowering stem leaty, stout, a foot high. 
Flowers in a lax corymb, erect, one and a half inches in dia- 
meter branches distant, flexuous, bracteate at the forks; 
bracts linear, quarter to half an inch long, pedicels one to 
three inches long, stout. Sepals one-third of an inch long, 
oblong, acute. Petals obovate, spathulate, bright pale yellow, 
membranous, twisted after flowering. Stamens usually ten, 
alternate longest; anthers short, yellow. Ovary oblong, one- 
celled; styles usually five, stigmas capitate ; ovules anatro- 
pous, crowded on a central receptacle. Capsule three-quarters 
of an inch long, narrow ovoid, coriaceous, glossy, five-valved. 
Seeds compressed.—J. D. H. 
Fig. 1, Portion of leaf and gland; 2, gland; 3, sepals, stamen and pistil ; 
4, petal; 5, stamen; 6, ovary; 7, transverse, and 8, vertical section of ditto : 
—all magnified. 
