bloomed in Europe was in 1811, near Paris, in the garden 
of La Malmaison, then belonging to the Empress Josephine. 
It was supposed to have been raised from seed brought home 
by the celebrated travellers, by whom we have already said 
the species was first observed. 
Stem shrubby, jointed, branching, of a clear soft 
green colour, nearly smooth, fleshy, largely and crenately 
indented at the edge, from cylindrical and often sub- 
angular with the thickness of a common pen, dilated into 
an oblong foliaceous lamina, from an inch and a half to 
two inches in breadth and about six in length, traversed 
longitudinally by a midrib branching into parallel side- 
nerves, armed at the angles of the indentations with pencils 
of minute prickles scarcely visible to the naked eye and 
imbedded in short white wool. Flowers in the indentations 
of the branches, solitary, 4 inches long, funnelform, slightly 
curved, squarrosely patent without, within converging cylin- 
drically. Germen oblong, several times shorter than the 
tube of the calyx. Calyx oblong, cylindrical, with a pale 
green tube beset with blackish purple reflected scales and 
shorter than the segments of the limb. Corolla of a fine 
rose-colour, a little longer than the calyx; petals elongatedly ~ 
oblong, with a small point at the end, inner ones tubularly 
campanulate. Stamens numerous, equal to the corolla: 
filaments of an almost capillary fineness, tender, white, 
Style equal to the stamens, filiform. Stigmas 5 or 7. 
