bloomed in Europe was in 1811, near Paris, in the garden 

 of La Malmaison, then belonging to the Empress Josephine. 

 It was supposed to have been raised from seed brought home 

 by the celebrated travellers, by whom we have already said 

 the species was firet observed. 



Stem shrabby, jointed, branching, of a clear soft 

 green colour, nearly smooth, fleshy, largely and crenately 

 indented at the edge, from cyhndrical and often sub- 

 angular with the thickness of a common pen, dilated into 

 an oblong foliaceous lamina, from an inch and a half to 

 two inches in breadth and about six in length, traversed 

 longitudinally by a midrib branching into parallel side- 

 nerves, armed at the angles of the indentations with pencils 

 of minute prickles scarcely visible to the naked eye and 

 imbedded in short white wool. Flowers in the indentations 

 of the branches, solitary, 4 inches long, funnelform, slightly 

 curved, squarrosely patent without, within converging cylin- 

 drically. Germen oblong, several times shorter than the 

 tube of the calyx. Calyx oblong, cylindrical, with a pale 

 green tube beset with blackish purple reflected scales and 

 shorter than the segments of the limb. Corolla of a fine 

 rose-colour, a little longer than the calyx ; petals elongatedly 

 oblong, with a small point at the end, inner ones tubularly 

 campanulate. Stamens numerous, equal to the corolla: 

 filaments of an almost capillary fineness, tender, white. 

 Style equal to the stamens^ filiform. Stigfnas 5 or 7. 



