the leaves apparently emarginate), the largest eight inches 
long, by one to two inches broad, fleshy, deep green, often 
purplish beneath in the upper part; petiole short, or very 
short. Cymes dichotomous, of eight to ten cyathia, on 
an erect peduncle, two inches long; bracts at the base of 
the branchlets quite small, the uppermost pair forming an 
outer involucre to the ecyathium, petaloid, suborbicular, 
cuspidulate, about a third of an inch in diameter, white or 
pinkish. _Cyathiuwm urnshaped, scarcely a sixth of an inch 
in diameter. Involucre five-lobed, lobes rotundate, fim- 
briate, inflexed, glands shortly stipitate, elliptic, depressed 
in the centre, a twelfth of an inch long. Male flowers 
with subulate ciliate bracteoles between them. Ovary 
globose, somewhat three-lobed; styles connate to the 
middle ; stigmas bifid, linear, revolute. Capsule unknown. 
—Orvo Starr. 
_ Fig. 1, a cyathium; 2, part of the involucre of the cyathium, seen from 
within ; 3, bracteoles of the cyathium ; 4, male flower; 5, pistil :—all enlarged, 
