316 Oliver . — On Save odes sanguined , Torr. 
fleshy leaves, they are fringed with a series of short processes 
of a glandular nature, and the whole outer face is covered 
with small glands. The head-cells of these glands possess 
a very granular protoplasm, but with the nature of the 
secretion I am unacquainted. It is not improbable that they 
serve to ward off the visits of ‘unbidden guests,’ creeping 
insects abounding in the humous mould in which Sarcodes 
grows. 
Throughout, I have found the flowers to possess 5-merous 
symmetry with superior ovary, and all floral members entirely 
hypogynous. There are no bracteoles, and the sepals form 
a very definite whorl. The individual sepals are entirely free 
from one another down to the base. They are bright crimson 
in colour, and are covered externally with small glands 
resembling those of the bracts. The sepals are inserted on 
the two-fifths arrangement, and, like the petals, are per- 
sistent. 
The corolla, unlike the calyx, is entirely smooth, almost 
waxen in appearance. It is sympetalous, its members being 
united to about half-way up. It equals the calyx in length, 
but its lobes are slightly curved outwards at the tip and 
project between the tips of the sepals (Fig. 3). The aestiva- 
tion of the corolla in the bud is always contorted, as shown 
in the floral diagram (Fig. 23). 
Passing on to the stamens. These are ten in number, and 
stand, in the mature flower, and in the youngest flower-buds 
available, in apparently one whorl. They are little more 
than half the length of the corolla, and the anthers are held 
vertically in a ring, just below the stigma. The filaments are 
subulate and, at the base, slightly expanded, becoming con- 
nate. These relations are shown in Fig. 3. The lower thirds 
of the filaments are pressed closely against the ovary, and 
between them project the ten lobes of the ovary, the stamens 
lying in the grooves between these lobes. The anthers are 
basifixed, and the two halves are parallel. Each anther-half 
possesses, in the usual manner, two loculi. Dehiscence takes 
place by two oval pores at the top, and towards the outside , of 
