one to one and a half broad, elliptic-lanceolate, acute, nar- 
rowed into the petiole-like branches, regularly coarsely ob- 
tusely toothed, between coriaceous and fleshy, quite flat, 
without scales or hairs ; midrib and lateral nerves broad and 
faint, the latter directed to the sinus of the teeth, and un- 
branched. Mowers copiously produced in the axils of the 
teeth, three-quarters to one inch in diameter, pale straw- 
coloured, odorous, opening by day. Ovary quite naked from 
a very early stage, sessile, oblong, with four to five obtuse 
ribs. Perianth erecto-patent; leaflets 8-12, narrow-lanceo- 
late, acute or acuminate, the outer rather smaller. © Stamens 
numerous, much shorter than the perianth. Style slender, 
_ stigmas four or five, spreading.—/. D. H. 
Fig, 1, Ovary style and stigma :—magnified. 
