and a half high ; branches as thick as a crow-quill, reddish- 

 brown, naked except at the summit, where they are sparingly 

 silky. Leaves one to one and a half inches long, crowded 

 towards the tips of the branches, sessile, spreading, 

 oblong-obovate or oblanceolate, obtuse or apiculate, cori- 

 aceous, glabrous on both surfaces, dull dark green above, 

 pale beneath ; nerves very obscure. Heads of flowers two 

 inches across or more, terminal, sessile ; bracts as long as 

 the perianth-tube, sessile, obovate-oblong, apiculate, mem- 

 branous, pale green, silky, inner narrow. Perianth sessile, 

 very pale straw-colrd., almost white, tube three-quarters 

 of an inch long, sparsely silky ; lobes one-fourth of an 

 inch long, ovate, obtuse, spreading. Stamens included, 

 tips of the upper four on a level with the mouth of the 

 perianth ; anthers linear-oblong. Dish membranous, about 

 half as long as the stipes of the ovary. Ovary narrowed 

 into a stipes as long as itself, oblong, silky, style very 

 short, stigma capitate. Berry white. — J. D. R. 



Fig. 1, Perianth laid open; 2 and 3, stamens ; 4, pistil and disk:— All 

 enlarged. 



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