ultimate branches of the nerves indicates their performing an 
important function in the nutrition of the plant. 
C. prolifera was raised from seed received in 1871 from 
Mr. Bolus, and now forms a profusely flowering mass of 
_ branches and Jeaves, two feet in diameter ; it flowered from 
March to June of the present year. 
Descr. Quite glabrous, excessively branched ; branches 
pendulous and creeping, one to two feet long, cylindric. 
Leaves sessile, half to three quarters of an inch long, orbi- 
cular-cordate, slightly connate at the base, acute or cuspidate, 
very thick and fleshy, slightly convex above, more so beneath, 
pale green on both surfaces, hardly glaucous, margins quite 
entire and glabrous, with a narrow chestnut-coloured border 
on the upper surface, within which is a series of minute 
points. Flowers white, in capitate peduncled cymes, which 
are about one inch in diameter, and subtended by two small 
_ orbicular fleshy bracts; pedicels a quarter to half inch 
long, turbinate at the apex. Calyx of five linear acute 
segments half as long as the petals. Corol/a one-third of an 
inch in diameter, of five ovate acuminate free petals, 
tinged with pink at the back. Stamens hardly exceeding 
the styles; anthers yellow. Hypogynous glands very short 
and broad. Carpels five, ovoid, abruptly terminated by di- 
verging styles with capitate stigmas.—J/. D. H. 
Fig. 1, Bud; 2, leaves; 3, flower expanded ; 4, stamen; 5, ovaries and 
hypogynous glands :—all magnified. 
