tary, but crowded into capitula at the extremities of the 
branches. Bractee several, erect, distichous, in other re- 
spects resembling the leaves but smaller, and gradually 
passing into the submembranous sepals, which are still 
smaller. Corolla longer than the calyx, pale greenish- 
yellow, opening by circumscission about the middle, the 
upper portion crisped at its lower margin, and rising like a 
calyptra upon the summit of the elongated style, the lower — 
part marcescent, marked by brown nerves. Stamens 5, 
hypogynous; filaments as long as the corolla, approaching 
below ; somewhat spreading above, flattened, subspathulate 
but pinched laterally at the apex, crystalline upwards ; 
anthers erect, attached by their back near the base, ovate, 
yellow, bisaccate at the base, cleft at the apex and opening 
within the cleft ; pollen yellow, granules minute, spherical. 
Pistil longer than the stamens ; stigma with five minute 
points ; style colourless, tapering upwards ; germen green, 
5-lobular, 5-locular, loculaments with their apices surround- 
ing the base of the style; placenta suspended from the 
column at the apex of the loculaments, green and naked on 
their outer side, but covered with suspended ovules on the 
inner. Graham. 
