months, when it makes a fine appearance, with its pink 

 panicles, and large glossy foliage. 



Descr. Stems erect, or nearly so, for they require sup- 

 port, from four to five feet high, between succulent and 

 woody, branched. Leaves large, glossy, especially the 

 younger ones, green on both sides, petiolated, obliquely 

 ovate, acute, thick and succulent, obscurely crenated at the 

 margin. Petioles about an inch long, terete. Stipules 

 large, membranaceous, oblong, mucronate and carinate, 

 deciduous. Panicles terminal and axillary, many-flower- 

 ed ; flowers large, handsome, especially the staminiferous 

 ones, which are an inch and a half across : Petals four, of 

 which two opposite ones are large, rounded, deep rose 

 colour, the two smaller ones broadly oblong, inclining to 

 yellow, all of them spreading : Stamens twenty or more, as 

 in the Genus. Pistill if erous -flowers with five nearly regu- 

 lar and equal petals, rose-coloured. Germen and mature 

 fruit with three wings, two of them comparatively small 

 and equal, the third very large, somewhat triangular, or 

 between ovate and subrotund. 



Fig. 1. Pistilliferous Flower : magnified. 2. Fruit, scarcely magnified. 



