hoary beneath with more copious down, the margins mucronato- 

 serrate. Spikes oijtowers two to three inches long, drooping, 

 yellow, braeteated ; bracteas ample, cordate or ovate, yellow- 

 green, lowest ones the largest and not floriferous, the rest bearing 

 each a single jloiver, which is sessile. Calyx with the short, 

 turbinate, downy, tube crowned with five, ovato-lanceolate, subin- 

 cised, erect segments. Corolla of five, oblong-spathulate, obtuse 

 or retuse and erect petals. Stamens five, as long as the petals. 

 Within the stamens are, in our specimens, ten erect oblong subu- 

 late glands. Ovary turbinate, incorporated with the tube of the 

 calyx, two-celled, cells one-seeded ; ovules pendent. Styles two, 

 about as long as the stamens. Stigmata incrassated, uncinate. 



Kg. 1. Flower and bract. 2. Calyx and pistil. 3. Ovary (incorporated with 

 the tube of the calyx) and the 2 styles. 4. Vertical section of the ovary, sur- 

 rounded by the 10 erect glands. 5. Transverse section of the ovary, with 2 

 cells, each with its ovule : — all more or less magnified. 



