marked with pale yellowish spots, of various sizes, but of an 
irregular orbicular form. The costa sends off several strong 
lateral parallel and almost horizontal nerves, and these are more 
or less united by transverse nervelets. Petioles stout, varying 
in length from one to two inches, the two opposite ones connate 
at the base around the stem and branch, the apex on the upper 
side, at the setting on of the leaf, and forming the base of the costa, 
has a cushion-hke tuft. Flowers rather large, numerous, collected 
into a dense hemispherical almost sessile umbel, variegated, pale 
green, and purplish-brown. Pedicels and calyx brownish with 
indistinct down. Sepals elhptical-ovate. Corolla, with the tube, 
as long as the calyx; segments of the limb rather longer, rounded, 
cUiated. Segments of the staminal crown ovate, fleshy, not 
forming an apex distinct from the anther, but gradually passing 
into it. Stigma rather acute. 
Fig. 1. Flower. 2. Staminal crown. 
