scarcely two lines long. Stipules ovate, sharply acuminate, red- 
dish. Corgmb terminal, short-peduncled, trichotomous, pedicels 
very short. owers very compact, erect. Calyw small, slightly 
downy, subtended by a minute, oblong, acute bracteole, at the 
base of the inferior ovary : limb of four, close-placed, small, erect, 
lanceolate teeth or segments. Corolla white, or rather inclining 
to cream-colour in our plant, long, hypocrateriform: fwde very 
slender, terete, fourteen lines long : “limb spreading, almost three- 
quarters of an inch in diameter, of four obovate, rather acute 
lobes. Anthers subulate, quite exserted. Style as long as the 
tube of the corolla. Stigma bipartite. 
Fig. 1. Flower. 2, Pistil :—magnified. 
