inferior portion is terete. Main stem and dranches in form ob-— 
ovato-lanceolate, singularly compressed, fleshy, pinnatifid, lobes 
more or less triangular and obtuse, sometimes acute. //owers 
solitary, arising from the sinus of a lobe, more than six inches 
long, and five or six wide. Zude elongated, terete, a little thick- 
ened at the base, green, bearing a few appressed, small, tooth-like 
scales. Sepals greenish, with a pink tinge inside, narrow-lan- 
ceolate, acuminate. Petals pure white, obovate, sharply acumi- 
nate, as long as the sepals. Stamens moderately numerous ; 
stigma with about ten rays. 
Fig. 1. Extremity of the stem, zat. size. 
