in the bipartite placentas. For the seeds the Royal 
Gardens are indebted to Mr. Mitten, A.L.S., of Hurst- 
pierpoint, who received them from Bishop Hannington in 
1884; the plants raised from them flowered at Kew in 
April, 1886. 
Descr. A tall, succulent, robust, branched species, 
twelve to eighteen inches high; stem, branches, petioles, 
peduncle and pedicels pale watery green with scarlet stria. 
Leaves \ong-petioled, four to six inches long, obliquely 
ovate, acute, coarsely crenate, deeply two-lobed at the 
lateral base where the rounded lobes overlap, dark green 
above, paler beneath with soft scattered hairs; nerves 
radiating from the top of the petiole; petiole as long as the 
blade, clothed at the top with soft white reversed bristles, 
which also form a ring round its insertion. Cymes long- 
peduncled, four- to six-flowered ; flowers pale rose-coloured, 
pedicelled, drooping, one or two females in each cyme. 
Matz FL. one and a half to two inches in diameter. Sepals 
four, outer broadly oblong, inner larger, more obovate. 
Stamens very numerous, filaments free; anthers subglobose. 
_ Feware ru. smaller. Sepals five, outer obovate-oblong. 
Ovary three-celled, placentas bipartite; stigmas three, 
short, united at the base; arms twisted with a continuous 
papillose band. Capsule three-winged, one wing protruded, 
upeurved obliquely, triangular-ovate, obtuse.—J. D. H. 
: Fig. 1, Top of petiole and base of leaf; 2, stamens; 3, transverse section of 
immature capsule; 4, stigmas :—all but fig. 1 enlarged. 
