surface with several submarginal pores. Flowering -stems 

 very numerous, one quarter to half an inch long, erect, 

 stout, leafy, 1 -flowered, covered with linear-oblong erect 

 leaves, and as well as the flowering stem and calyx vis- 

 cidly glandular. Floicer erect, half an inch diameter. 

 Calyx-tube hemispherical, adnate to the base of the ovary ; 

 segments short, ovate, obtuse. Petals obovate-spathulate, 

 yellow, spreading, emarginate. Stamens yellow. Ovary 

 short; styles stout, conical, stigmas capitate subentire. — 

 /. D. IT. 



Fig. 1, leaf; 2, flower; 3, ovary and base of calyx : — all magnified. 



