the winter months, when their vitality is checked by cold or 
other causes. 
Duscr. A succulent branching herb, nearly glabrous, 
except the scape and calyx. Sfem and éranches as stout as 
a goosequill, obscurely 4-angled. Leaves rather succulent, 
two to two and a half inches long, ovate, acute, serrate, 
d-nerved, shining green shot with brown-purple above, 
rose-purple beneath ; petiole about half as long as the blade. 
Peduncles two to three inches long, bright red, solitary, ter- 
minal, erect, slightly strigose above. Cymes about 6-flowered. 
Hlowers one inch in diameter, shortly pedicelled. Calya- 
tube ovoid, 6-ribbed, scaberulous ; limb cupular, 3-lobed, lobes 
subequal, rounded. Petals almost orbicular, acute, bright 
purple. Stamens six; anthers ovate, gradually produced into 
an obtuse beak. Ovary 3-celled, its apex produced within 
5 calyx-tube, conical and 6-toothed. Style declinate.— 
oD. HH. 
_Fig.1, Flower with the petals removed; 2, petal; 3, stamens; 4, ovary 
with part of calyx-tube removed :—all magnified. 
