in 1790, and flowers, more or less copiously, from May 

 to December. 



Descr. Our plant rises with several weak, though 

 rather stout, fleshy, semi-pellucid, reddish stems, having a 

 few scattered patent hairs, to the height of three or four 

 feet, branched. Leaves on short, rounded petioles, two to 

 three inches long, succulent, very oblique, or, in other 

 words, semi-cordato-ovate, hispid, plaited at the nerves, 

 acuminate, lobed and inciso-serrate at the margin. Stipules 

 ovate, membranous, deciduous. Peduncles axillary, longer 

 than the leaves, hispid, bearing three to five flowers. Male 

 flowers consisting of four, white petals, two large and acute, 

 two about half that size and obtuse. Female flowers with 

 five white petals, of which two are smaller. Fruit with one 

 large and two small membranous wings. 



Fig. 1. Section of a Capsule : — magnified. 



