branching towards the upper part, young branches green. 

 Leaves scattered, widespread, coriaccously thickened, ob- 

 long, cuneately lanceolate, some entire, most sharply ser- 

 rate at the upper half of tlie hiade, tapered far downwards 

 into short thick petioles, larj^est sometimes exceeding 8 

 inches in length and two and a half in Ijreadth; the very 

 young ones as well as the scales of the hud arc finely 

 and silkily furred at the under side. Calyx of six leaflets, 

 thickish, subcartilaginous, campanulately rotate, about ^ of 

 an inch in diameter, silkily furred on the outside, surrounded 

 by several caducous scales; leaflets nearly equal, suborbicu- 

 lar, convex, brown and scariose at tlie uj)per part, emargin- 

 ately split at the upper part of the horder. Corolla white, 

 suffused with yellow, imbricately rotate, nearly equal, 

 two inches in diameter, hexapetalous ; petals broadly ob- 

 cordate, emarginate, reciu-ved at the upper part, very 

 shortly tapered at the base; three outer ones rather the 

 largest, more substantial, scarcely nndulate; 3 inner ones 

 tenderer, undulated. Peduncles thic\\, silky, several times 

 shorter than the calyx, scarred from the falling of the scales. 

 Anthers in our specimen with scarcely any pollen, and that 

 imperfect. We did not inspect the germen. Style upright, 

 columnar, overtopping the stamens ; stigmas 3, green, 

 spreadhig, subbifid. 



The incompleteness of the stamens and the apparent 

 completeness of the pistil in our sample, suggested to Mr. 

 Brown the possibility of the species being androgynous. This 

 however he mentioned as matter of mere surmise, it being 

 very probable that the incomplete development of the sta- 

 mens might arise from the flower being produced out of 

 its natural climate. 



