short, broadly ovate, greenish tube, and a five-cleft, spread- 
ing bright red limb : the segments obcordate, and having at 
the mouth five-roundish, bifid, serrated, buff-coloured, con- 
nivent scales. At the base of each lobe is a transverse 
honey-bearing gland. © In our plant the involucres contain 
only male flowers ; each consists of a pedicel with a single 
stamen, subtended by a narrow linear scale. Anthers of two 
globose cells, set apart at the apex of the filament. 
Fig. 1,2. Unexpanded Flowers. 2. Portion of the Involucre, the Scales 
removed to show the Gland. 3. Scale. 4. Male Flower and accompanying 
Scale or Bractea :—magnified. 
