the dranches are short and sterile, bearing only rosules of more 
or less distant leaves; others are tall, and bear flowers and dis- 
tant foliage: all are sulcated, somewhat clammy and _ glossy. 
Leaves three to four inches long, oblong-spathulate, thick and 
fleshy, firm, viscid, coarsely serrated, penniveined, the costa and 
veins prominent beneath: upper leaves passing into bracteas. 
Flowers large, more or less numerous, racemose, terminating the 
branches, drooping. Pedicels bracteated (with small leaves) at 
the base, and bearing about two dracteoles near the middle. 
Calyz-tube broad, turbinate, five-angled, and depressed between 
the angles; /obes spreading, triangular, acute, thick. Corolla 
white, between urceolate and campanulate, obscurely five-angled, 
the lobes triangular, moderately spreading. Stamens distant, in- 
serted on the outside of a large orange-coloured aznulus or mar- 
gin to the broad hypogynous disc. //aments dilated at the base. 
Anthers oblong. Ovary three-celled. Placentas two-lobed. Style 
remarkably thickened upwards, downy, short. S¢igmas short, at 
first erect. 
Fig. 1. Flower from which the corolla is removed. 2. Transverse section of 
an ovary. 3. Stamen :—magnified. 
