NAT. ORDER. 
Portulacece. 
OALANDEINIA DISCOLOE. TKI-COLOKED CALANDEINIA. 
Class XIII. PoLYANDRiA. Order I. Monogynia. 
Gen. Cliar. Calyx, permanent, bipartite. Sepals^ roundish, ovate. 
Petals, three to five, inserted into the bottom of the calyx. *S'to- 
mens, four to fifteen. Style, one, very short. Lobes, collected. 
Spe. Char. Leams, quite entire, radical or alternate. Pedicels, one 
flowered, axillary or opposite the leaves. 
The stem of this plant is suffruticose, succulent, much branched, 
flexuose, and marked with the scars arising" from the falling of the old 
leaves ; the leaves are mostly confined to extremity, or near the ex- 
tremity of the branches ; they are lanceolate-spathulate, acute, fre- 
quently re-curved, succulent, of a g-laucous gi^een on the upper surface, 
and a purplish red beneath ; the racemes which are terminal from the 
apex of the branches, are long" ; the pedicels compound and deflexed 
before and after flowering* ; the fioicers are larg^e and about twice 
the size of those of Calandrinia grandijlora ; the calyx consists of two 
concave, ovate, g"reen leaves, spotted with black ; the petals are very 
larg-e, obcordate, and of a bright rose color ; the stamens are from 
twenty to thirty in number ; the filaments are red and slightly downy ; 
the anthers red and brown ; the polen orange color ; the germen broad- 
ly ovate, and green ; the style is thickened, especially upwards ; the 
stigma consists of three flattened lobes, which are yellow. 
Among the many novel and beautiful plants which adorn the Bn 
tish gardens, is the Calandrinia discolor. Many others of its species. 
Vol. TV.— 38. 
