cylindric, woody, one to two inches in diameter, covered with 
light brown bark. Branches a foot long, erect, soft, succu- 
lent, cylindric, slender, sparingly divided, green. Leaves 
attenuate, almost sessile, one and a half inches long and 
nearly as broad, broadly orbicular-oblong, rounded at both 
ends, apiculate at the tip, smaller upwards, green, fleshy, 
margins quite entire, slightly recurved. Peduncles axillary, 
one-flowered, longer than the leaves, spreading, with a small 
bract, and sometimes a rudimentary flower-bud above the 
middle. lowers one inch in diameter. Sepals ovate, acute, 
green. Petals obovate, acute, pale golden yellow. Stamens 
half the length of the sepals. Ovary almost globose; style 
short; stigmas slender, recurved.— J. D. H. > 
Fig. 1, Peduncle and flower; 2, ovary; 3, transverse section of ditto:— 
magnified. 
