with a branch at the base, terminal, three to seven inches 

 long, many-flowered ; rachis stout, clothed with ferruginous 

 hairs. Pedicels slender, half an inch long, with three minute 

 subulate bracts at the base. Mowers one inch in diameter, 

 pale yellow. Sepals oblong, obtuse, green, with two glands 

 externally, pubescent with ferruginous hairs at the middle of 

 the back. Petals nearly orbicular, clawed, edges crenate- 

 toothed. Stamens small ; anthers oblong, opening by termi- 

 nal pores. Styles two, very slender, recurved ; ovary hairy. 

 Bipe carpels two, with broad, arched, expanded, coriaceous, 

 veined wings. — J. I). II. 



Fig. 1. Flower with petals removed. 2. Ditto, showing glands of calyx. 

 3. Stamens. 4. Pistil. 5. Transverse, and 6, vertical section of ovary. 

 7. Bipe fruit ; — all but Fig. 7 magnified. 



