high. It is planted in a bed in the Mexican division of 

 the Temperate House of the Royal Gardens, where it 

 flowers freely throughout the year. It has been long in 

 cultivation at Kew. 



Descr. — Sfera eight feet high, copiously branched, 

 branches spreading or drooping, as thick as the little 

 finger, green. Leaves six to eight inches long, obliquely 

 ovate-lanceolate, unequally two-lobed at the base, very 

 dark green above, paler along the nerves, pale green 

 beneath, and sometimes suffused with red, margins undu- 

 late and crenulate; petiole rather short, stout; stipules 

 one to one and a half inches long, ovate-lanceolate, her- 

 baceous, green, persistent. Feduncles long, rather slender. 

 Floivers in heads on the terminal branchlets of a very large 

 repeatedly dichotomously branched panicle, white, about 

 two-thirds of an inch in diameter; male fl.y sepals 2, 

 orbicular, depressed in the middle; petals one-third as 

 large, oblong; stamens crowded in a small receptacle, 

 filaments very short, anthers linear-oblong, connective 

 obtuse; fem. fl,, sepals 4-5, orbicular; stigmas sessile, 

 broadly reniform, papillose all over. Capsule three-winged, 

 an inch broad across the wings ; dorsal wing obliquely 

 rounded, lateral much shorter.—/. D. U, 



Figs. 1 aud 2, stamens; 3, fruit; 4, transverse section of ovary:— a?^ en- 

 larged. 



