distinguished from all the other species with which I 

 am acquainted by the thick and very hairy stems and 

 peduncles, by the peculiar form of the cuculli or leaflets of 

 the staminal crown, and by the absence of the horn-like 

 processes so common within the cucullus in other species 

 of the Genus. 



Descr. Herbaceous, perennial. Stems straight, erect or 

 declined, terete, very hairy. Leaves opposite, sessile, 

 broadly elliptical, coriaceous, glabrous, mucronate. Pe- 

 duncles solitary, intra-petiolary, about equal in length with 

 the leaves, bearing a dense hemisphaerical umbel of 

 numerous, rather large flowers. Pedicels slender, hairy. 

 Buds purple. Calyx and corolla yellow-green, the latter 

 with the segments reflex ed. Cuculli or leaflets of the 

 staminal crown, with their margins meeting together so as 

 each to form a ventricose cylinder, truncated at the apex, 

 quite destitute of horn-like process within. Anthers with 

 the appendage incurved : at their base is an orange ring. 

 Pistils two. 



Fig. 1. Flower. 2. Stamens. 3. Leaflet (cucullus) of the staminal 

 crown. 4. Inside view of an Anther : — magnified. 



