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pepe 
native of Madagascar. There is, indeed, in the herbarium 
at Kew a specimen collected by the late Rev. R. Baron in 
Northern Madagascar (Baron n. 6466), growing amongst 
moss and probably on a tree, that appears to be no more 
than a reduced form of our plant. The leaves of Baron’s 
specimen are nearly orbicular, very obscurely crenate and 
only 24-3 lin. long, while the flowers are only 8 lin. long ; 
the staminal insertion and the shape of the carpels are, 
however, exactly as in kK. uniflora. All the flowers 
originally sent by Mr. Bouvet and all those that have been 
produced at Kew have been solitary as shown in t. 8266, 
but we are informed by Mr. Bouvet that his plants which 
in 1908 had for the most part only solitary flowers, bore 
3-flowered inflorescences in 1909. Normally the epipetalous 
stamens have longer filaments than the episepalous ones, and 
the total number of stamens is eight. But the absolute 
length of the stamens is subject to some variation, and 
occasionally some of the stamens may become much reduced 
or may even be suppressed. In the flowers sent by Mr. 
Bouvet in 1908 the shorter stamens almost reached the 
mouth of the corolla, while the longer ones were slightly 
exserted; in the specimen which flowered at Kew in 1909 
the shorter stamens only reached the middle of the corolla, — , 
while the longer only exceeded them by the length of the 
anthers, and were also included. Mr. Bouvet informs us 
that among the flowers examined by him in 1909 he has 
found four with only six perfect stamens, and one with only 
five. Designating the stamens long, medium or short, 
according to whether they reached the mouth, the middle, 
or even a still lower level in the corolla tube, he has 
observed the following combinations :—(a) Five long, one 
medium; (6) four long, two short; (c) three long, three 
short; (d) one long, two medium, two short; (e) two 
medium, four short. The leaves of K. uniflora are thick 
and fleshy, glaucous green with reddish margins; the 
young stems also are red. Grown in a pan or a suspended 
basket in a mixture of peat and loam in a moist tropical 
house the plant increases rapidly. It flowers in spring. 
Descriprion.—Herb, stems prostrate and rooting at the — 
nodes, glabrous. Leaves opposite, obovate, obtuse, 1-2- — 
crenate along each side, 4-8 lin. long, 3-5 lin. broad, — 
fleshy, bright green; petioles 4-1 lin. long, rarely longer. 
