much divided, and run in all directions round the trunk of 
the tree to which the plant has attached itself. Stem, of the 
largest individual which I have met with, four inches and a 
half in circumference, round, jointed ; joints about an inch 
in length, a little thicker at their extremities than in the 
middle, covered by a grayish-brown epidermis. Branches 
also composed of oblong, leaflike joints, from an inch to an 
inch and a half in length, those at the lower part being 
thicker and of a more woody texture than the upper ones. 
Joints with two serratures on either side, from each of which 
arises a small fascicle of hairs. The upper margin is rounded 
at the corners, and truncated; in the young branches fur- 
nished with small fascicles of hairs. Flower regular, arising 
from the truncated extremities of the branches, two inches 
and a half long, of a delicate deep pink colour. Sepals nume- 
rous, imbricated; the lower ones small, ovate, the upper lan- 
ceolate, their united bases forming a pink-coloured tube, 
the upper half spreading. Stamens numerous, a little lon- 
ger than the calycine tube, arising in two distinct series from 
the top of the ovarium—those of the external row attached 
for nearly half of their length to the tube of the calyx,—the 
internal row united at their bases by a short membrane, 
which forms a tube round the style. Filaments filiform, of 
the same colour as the flower. Anthers oblong, two-celled 
of a deep pink colour before bursting, at maturity yellowish, 
as is also the pollen. Ovarium inferior, obovate, short, 
four-winged, smooth, of a pale green colour : style filiform, 
straight, of the same hue as the flower, a little longer than 
the stamens: stigma clavate, consisting of seven short, 
connivent segments (five cohering by a glutinous juice into 
a kind of cup. Miers). Ripe fruit 1 have not seen ; in the 
Steen state it is one-celled, many-seeded ; the seeds attached 
to parietal placente. G. Gardner. 
ima and inner circle of Stamens, 2. Section of the Germen :— 
