crowns, linear-spathulate, subacute, plane, thick and fleshy, with 

 minute cartilaginous cilia at the edges. Scapes numerous, stout, 

 erect, bearing numerous opposite, pcduncled, subcapitate, very 

 many flowered cymes. Flowers very small, white. Petals oblong, 

 spreading. 



Fig. 1. Margin of leaf. 2. Flower. 3. Ditto, calyx removed. 4. Ovary 

 and squamulce : — all magnified. 



