to the Royal Gardens of Kew, where it has been long cul- 
tivated ; and very lately we have received living specimens 
through the liberality of Baron von Lupwie, which, arriy- 
ing in the month of April, quite destitute of leaves, soon 
produced both foliage and flowers as here represented. 
The whole plant abounds with milky juice. 
Descr. Stem four to five inches high, and about three 
broad, oval or obovate, brown, greenish above, marked all 
over with the tuberculiform scars, arising from fallen leaves, 
of which the interstices exhibit a reticulated appearance. 
Leaves all terminal, clustered, erecto-patent, four to six 
inches long, lanceolate obtuse, with a few oblique veins 
from the costa, below tapering into a footstalk. From 
within these leaves the peduncles arise, two to three inches 
long, erect, bearing each only one capitulum or head o 
flowers. Germen: Involucre of two roundish or obcordate 
leaves, of a rather thick and coriaceous texture, united at 
their bases, within which, and quite sessile, is the partial 
mvolucre, cup-shaped, with five equal, nearly erect, round- 
ed, minutely crenated, fleshy lobes, and alternating with 
them are five smaller, somewhat membranaceous and fim bri- 
ated ones. Staminiferous flowers numerous. The pistillife- 
rous one had fallen away when this drawing and descrip- 
tion were made. But Jaceurin describes the germen as 
smooth, and the stigma trifid, with the segments obscurely 
bifid. 
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