Duscr. A small shrub, glabrous in all its parts, except 
an obscure silky pubescence on the edges of the sepals. 
Stem as thick as the little finger, grooved. Leaves crowded 
towards the ends of the branches, spreading, a foot long, 
sessile, narrow lanceolate, acuminate, quite entire or minutely 
distantly serrulate; midrib broad, pale; nerves very faint, 
coriaceous, paler and subglaucous beneath. Racemes axillary, 
equalling the leaves, stout, subrecurved. Mowers secund, 
subsessile, two inches in diameter. Bracts and bracteoles 
three, shorter than the sepals, the lower narrow-oblong, acu- 
minate, the upper subulate, green, deciduous. Sepals oblong, 
concave, apiculate, coriaceous, green. Petals bright yellow, 
obovate-cuneate, retuse. Stamens very numerous and densely 
crowded ; filaments slender; anthers linear-oblong, the outer 
imperfect. Carpels 2—4, ovoid, turgid, glabrous, with slender 
diverging styles.—J. D. H. 
Fig. 1, Stamen; 2, carpels; 3, transverse section of do, :—all magnified. 
