August, 1868, and remained in fruit during a good part of 
the winter. It was communicated to the Royal Gardens by 
Mr. Niven, from the rich herbaceous collection of the Botanic 
Gardens of Hull. 
Descr. A low, depressed, densely tufted herb, covered with 
minute yellow-green flowers, succeeded by globose, bright 
orange-red berries. Almost glabrous in every part. Stems 
creeping and rooting, densely tufted, six to ten inches long, 
tetragonous. Leaves one-sixth to one-third of an inch long, 
broadly ovate, acute or obtuse, coriaceous or almost fleshy ; 
petioles as long as the blade or shorter. Séipules very small. 
Flowers solitary, minute, sessile, one-tenth of an inch long, 
probably subunisexual, one sex having long stamens and 
short styles, the other the reverse. Calyx-limb four-toothed. 
Corolla fannel-shaped, green with four short spreading lobes. 
Stamens four, filaments flattened. Ovary two.-celled, styles 
slender, papillar all over ; ovules one in each cell. Fruit glo- 
bose, bright orange, translucent, size of a small pea, most 
abundantly produced, each with two plano-convex coriaceous 
one-seeded cocci.—J. D. H. 
Fig. 1, Tip of branch with leaves and flower; 2, corolla laid open; 3, sta- 
men; 4, ovary; 5, vertical section of ditto; 6, tip of branch and fruit; 
7, transverse section of ditto; 8, cocci :—all highly magnified. 
