simple, two to six feet high, terminated by a crown of leaves 
and pyramidal panicle. Leaves flaccid, one to two feet long, 
often purplish, oblong-lanceolate, tapering to a broad sessile 
base, doubly serrate, pubescent above, hirsute below, succu- 
lent towards the middle. Panicle erect, pyramidal, two feet 
high and upwards ; branches spreading. Flowers large, yellow- 
green, one and a half to two inches long. Calyx green; lobes 
oblong-lanceolate, acuminate; much longer than the angled 
tube. Corolla-tube cylindrical, shorter than the linear re- 
curved lobes. Stigmas radiating, very large, half an inch 
long, revolute at the apex.—J. D. H. 
Fig. 1. Calyx, ovary, and stamen,—magnified. 
