not strikingly beautiful, are extremely pretty when exa- 
mined carefully. 
The plant has the same habit as the common Heuchera 
americana, and requires the same kind of cultivation. 
It loves a shady peat border, in which it is protected 
from high winds, which are apt to injure its brittle stems 
and leaves. Mr. Douglas has observed it producing young 
plants from the base of the leaves ; ; an economy we have 
not noticed in it in this country. With us it is poebae alee 
by seed and division of the roots. 
Our drawing was made in the Chiswick Garden, in 
April of the present year. 
Mr. Brown remarks of this genus, that it is near 
Heuchera and Vahlia of Thunberg, of which Oldenlandia 
pentandria of Retzius is an undoubted species. 
J.L. 
