* Stem upright, branched, straggling, 2-3 feet high, 
very smooth, with brown sheathing circles above the pe- 
tioles. Leaves alternate; petiole an inch long, cylindrical; 
blade semicordate, from the petiole to the tip 5-6 inches 
long, 2 inches broad, pointed, with somewhat cartilaginous 
slightly crenulated repand margin, very smooth, fleshy, at the 
upper surface marked with white roundish spots of various 
sizes produced by the disappearance of the green pigment 
in the cellular tissue, and containing two or more small 
pits in the middle of a green disk ; at the under surface 
wholly red. Peduncles axillary, sustaining a many-flowered 
panicle. Bractes 2 on each pedicle, opposite, lanceolate, 
white, (caducous:) Pedicle white at the upper part. Co- 
rolla of 4 petals, white, without scent, two opposite petals 
of the four the largest. Filaments many, very short. An- 
thers oblong. Germen winged ?” 
We had no opportunity of describing the flowers our- 
Selves. 
— 
1. An antherbearing flower. 2. A pistilbearing flower. 3. Style and 
stigma. 
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