spinules : the extremities of the branches are very obtuse. 
he flowers are numerous, especially upon the ultimate 
ramuli, sessile, an inch across, and, according to the draw- 
ing, the Germen is covered with scales. The lowermost 
and shorter of these scales are supposed to constitute the 
calyx ; the upper interior ones the corolla; these are much 
the longest, and, as Mr. Haworru observes, become sud- 
denly longer, linear-oblong ; all of them pale yellow, with 
a brownish tinge on the outside: they spread out horizon- 
tally, or are even reflexed. Stamens very numerous: Fila- 
ments as long as the corolla, white: Anthers roundish, 
pale yellow: Style as long as the stamens, terminated by 
the four-rayed stigma. 
Introduced to the Royal Gardens of Kew, by Messrs. 
Bowre and Attan Cunnincuam, the King’s collectors, in 
1816. It blossomed there in the early part of the summer 
of 1826, when the drawing was made which Mr. Arron has 
kindly allowed us to introduce in this place. 
The genus Ruipsauis has already been adopted in the 
present work, and also by us in the Exotic Flora, as dis- 
tinct from Cacrus: but, as we observed in the latter work, 
it is better characterized by habit, than by any essential 
marks in the fructification. The small number of divisions 
in the calyx and corolla, and the fewer stamens, we had 
formerly supposed to be useful points of discrimination ; 
but, in this plant, we find them to be inconstant. _ 
