1 inch in diameter, strongly marked all over by the scars 
of the fallen scales with which the suckers are clothed 
when they first appear. Leaves oblong, acuminate, on 
short pedicels, often approximated here and there by 
threes, whence they acquire a sort of whorled PERE OR 
Racemes terminal; corymbose. Lowers white. 
J.L. 
