from Drymonia and Besleria. We had not the opportunity of 
examining the perfect flowers from which the drawing was made, 
and therefore abstain from offering an opinion on the value of 
Mr. Karsten’s new genus. With us it flowers in mid-winter. 
Descr. Stems from two to three or even five feet high (ac- 
cording to some, obscurely tetragonal), nearly terete, erect, 
branched, red, downy. Leaves large, opposite, of a somewhat 
thick and fleshy nature, ovate, acuminate, strongly serrated, 
_ downy above, hoary and pale beneath, with a strong costa and 
many parallel veins, which are prominent beneath, the base 
tapering into the yather long, succulent petioles, which are also 
downy and reddish. The czforescence is axillary, and described 
as umbelliform, but in our plant the peduncles are simple, single- 
flowered, bibracteated at the base, as long, including the flower, 
as the petioles. Mowers erect or nearly so, of moderate size. 
Calyx very large, pale yellow-green, tinged with red, truncated 
at the base, deeply cut into five, long, ovate, serrated lobes. Co- 
rolla white, infundibuliform, half as long again as the calyx: dude 
white, woolly. Limb of five, equal, rounded, spreading, orbicu- 
lar, spotted /odes, the margins entire, the surface spotted with 
purple. Stamens and style downy, included. Ovary ovate, downy, 
with a rather obscure annulus at the base. 
Fig. 1. Pistil :—magnified. 
