the ends of the branches, spreading and deflexed, four to 
seven inches long, oblong or ovate-oblong, rounded at the 
base, narrowed into slender acuminate points, furfuraceous 
below and above when young; petiole slender, furfuraceous, 
tumid at the apex. aceme terminal, short, stout, dense- 
flowered, one to three inches long, rachis furfuraceous, tumid. 
Flowers imbricating ; abruptly deflexed from the apex of the 
orange-yellow pedicels, which are one to one and a half inches 
long. Calyx bright orange, oblong-cylindric, two-thirds of 
an inch long, irregularly split half way down, covered like 
the pedicels with furfuraceous down. Pefals hardly twice as 
long as the calyx, linear-oblong, pale yellow. Stamens five to 
seven, horizontal, slightly upcurved, pale yellow, three to 
four inches long. Ovary cylindric, on a curved gynophore. 
Fruit described as cylindric.—J. D. H. 
Fig. 1, Petal; 2, receptacle and ovary :—both magnified. 
