nine in the morning, and close at two in the afternoon. The 
same author tells us, that if the leaves are bruised they stain 
the skin a red colour, which can only be removed by scrubbing 
with sand and water. He adds, that the leaves are boiled 
and eaten as kitchen-garden stuff ; and that they are applied 
to ulcers and tumours in the manner of poultices. 
It is a perennial, of great beauty, flowering most profusely 
in the stove. The specimens from which the accompanying 
drawing was made, and for which we are indebted to Mrs. 
Lawrence, were the most lovely one can imagine, in the 
month of December, when it is most difficult to procure such 
things, forming festoons of snow-white yellow -eyed flowers 
resting upon a deep green shining foliage. 
Fig. 1 . represents a stamen, whose filament is covered over 
the base with yellow glands ; 2. is the style and stigmas; 
3. the ovary cut across. 
