170 JOURNAL OF THE ROYAL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 
Description. — A small, bright-green evergreen perennial. Roots fibrous. 
Stems twiggy below, slender, rooting ; barren shoots short, with crowded leaves, 
flowering shoots erect or ascending, 3-4 inches long, sometimes branched, leafy. 
Leaves alternate or opposite, glabrous, obovate, flat, fleshy, blunt, sessile, J inch 
Fig. 92. — 5. alsinejolium Allioni. 
long ; those of the flowering shoots oblong, f inch long. Inflorescence a leafy 
raceme 1-2 inches long, sometimes branched, with the flowers solitary or 
several together on short, slender branches. Flowers white or whitish, J inch 
across. Calyx green, cup-shaped, the triangular teeth equalling the tube. 
Petals lanceolate, acute, apiculate, wide-spreading, more than twice the calyx. 
Stamens shorter than the petals, filaments white, anthers red or purple. Scales 
?pathulate, thrice as long as broad, yellowish, emarginate. Carpels green. 
