of Cambridge, which flowered there in November, 1898, 
and was sent to me for figuring by the Curator, Mr. 
Lynch, A.L.S. | 
Descr.— Stem three and a half inches high, erect from a 
conical base an inch and a half in diameter, thence tapering 
upwards to half an inch diam., terminating in short, thick, 
spreading branches with leafy tips, whole surface of 
stem pale brown, covered with large quadrate scars. 
Leaves one and a half to two inches long, shortly stoutly 
petioled, linear-oblong, acute, sharply toothed, dark green, 
glabrous, paler beneath, nerves eight or ten pairs, spread- 
ing, prominent beneath. Pedwncles axillary, one and a half 
to two inches long, stout, smooth. Receptacle broadly 
campanulate, with as many ribs as there are arms, disk 
one half to three-quarters of an inchin diam., flat, margins” 
thickened all round, giving off six to eight subulate, 
tortuous or flexuous arms an inch long. Male fl. minute, 
superficial on the disk, two-lipped, thickly papillose; 
Stamens two. Fem. fl. Ovaries sunk in cavities of the 
2 re ; Style basal, filiform, quite entire, glandular, exserted. 
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Fig. 1, Section of receptacle with : i sab atwiei 
3, male fl.; 4, ovary sated ot asa pre ten.<8 1 9, apper pen 
