attenuated to an obtuse base, with the margins quite entire 

 for an inch above the petiole, and in other points. 



Desck. A small stove shrub, probably becoming a bush or 

 small tree in its native country. Leaves crowded at the apex 

 of the stem, a foot long, three inches broad, spreading and 

 recurved, on very short thick petioles a quarter of an inch 

 long, acuminate, acutely serrulate from an inch above the 

 base to the tip, oblong-lanceolate, almost linear below, 

 rounded at the very base, not very coriaceous ; veins nume- 

 rous, arching. Panicle a foot long, copiously branched; 

 branches stout, ascending, with two subulate stipuliform 

 bracts at the base. Flowers one-third of an inch in dia- 

 meter, in clusters of two to five on the branches of the 

 panicle ; pedicels spreading, slender, curved, without bracts. 

 Sepals linear- oblong, obtuse, pale yellow-green. Petals 

 golden-yellow, rather longer than the sepals, ovate-oblong, 

 obtuse. J. I). H. 



Fig. 1. Flower. 2. Stamen. 3. Pistil. 4. Transverse section of 

 ovary : — all magnified. 



