distances by globular tufts of white chaffy scales, which when 
abraded Jeave behind brown fibrous scars, resembling the bases 
of the sori in Ferns, both in texture and colour. Leaf-dud scales, 
in growing plants, linear-oblong, much elongated, and often of a 
brilliant scarlet. Leaves three to five and a half inches long, 
and from one to one and a half inch wide; during winter very 
much curled back, so that the edges nearly meet the midrib. 
Petioles thick and stout, about an inch in length. The flowers 
as large as those of &. Zhomsoni ; the lobes five, deeply bilobed. 
Stamens ten, smooth: the anthers with oblique pores. Corymé 
ten- to fifteen-flowered, the peduncles reflected. Calyz very large, 
campanulate, coloured, unequally and irregularly five-lobed, the 
two back lobes the largest, all of them shallow. Capsule about 
an inch long, seven- to eight-celled, two-thirds covered by the 
persistent coriaceous calyx, light brown, cylindric-ovate, the ced/s 
acute, placental, dissepiments very thick and rounded. Seed 
lanceolate, light brown, with a margin chiefly on one side, and 
the summit torn into several threads.” uit. 
Fig. 1. Portion of a leaf, with villous scale. 2. Scale removed from a Icaf. 
3. Stamens. 4. Calyx and pistil. 5. Transverse section of ovary :—magnified. 
