nerved, subglanduloso-serrate, tapering below into a very short 
petiole. Flowers copious on all the younger branches, solitary 
from the axils along their whole length, secund, drooping: the 
leaves however pass into minute bracteas at the apex; so that a 
whole branch may be considered a leafy raceme. Pedice/s short, 
red, bearing two, lanceolate, opposite éracteoles, with very con- 
spicuous glandular serratures. Calyx-tube quite glabrous, tur- 
binate, even (not angled), the lower half incorporated with the 
ovary, the /imé or free portion divided half-way down into five 
acuminated teeth, with two or three glandular serratures on their 
margins. Petals spathulate: the claws broad, erect, and so ap- 
proximate as to form a cylindrical tube, white, tinged with red: 
the /amina obovate, spreading. Stamens included. Style thick, 
broader upwards, as long as the claws of the petal, for one-third 
of its length sheathed by a ¢orws or large epigynous gland, fim- 
briated at the apex. Stigma large, peltate. 
Fig. 1. Portion of a winged branch, with leaves, and a flower. 2. Flower 
from which the stamens and petals, and part of the calyx, are removed. 
3. Petal :—magnified. 
