the present year, in a tropical stove, from seeds sent us by 
its discoverer. 
Descr. A shrub, with slender glabrous branches. Leaves 
glabrous, four to six inches long, membranous, oblong or 
ovate, rounded or slightly unequally cordate at the base, 
acuminate, acutely irregularly toothed. Cymes three- to four- 
flowered, pubescent with stellate hairs. Flowers an inch to 
an inch and a quarter in diameter, bright yellow. Sepals 
broadly linear, subacute. Petals similar in form, obtuse. 
Anthers narrow-linear, slightly two-lobed at the base. Fruit 
two inches long, sharply ribbed, four- to seven-celled.— 
de D; H, 
Fig. 1. Stamen. 2. Germen. 38. Transverse section of ovary. 4. 
Fruit. 5. Transverse section of do.:—all but 4 and 5 magnified. 
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