branching towards the upper part, young branches green. 
Leaves scattered, widespread, coriaceously thickened, ob- 
long, cuneately lanceolate, some entire, most sharply ser- 
rate at the upper half of the blade, tapered far downwards 
into short thick petioles, largest sometimes exceeding 8 
inches in length and two and a half in breadth; the very 
young ones as well as the scales of the bud are finely 
and silkily furred at the under side. Calyx of six leaflets, 
thickish, subcartilaginous, campanulately rotate, about } of 
an inch in diameter, silkily furred on the outside, surrounded 
by several caducous scales; leaflets nearly equal, suborbicu- 
lar, convex, brown and scariose at the upper part, emargin- 
ately split at the upper part of the border. Corolla white, 
suffused with yellow, imbricately rotate, nearly equal, 
two inches in diameter, hexapetalous; petals broadly ob- 
cordate, emarginate, recurved at the upper part, very 
shortly tapered at the base; three outer ones rather the 
largest, more substantial, scarcely undulate; 3 inner ones 
tenderer, undulated. . Peduncles thick, silky, several times 
shorter than the calyx, scarred from the falling of the scales. 
~ Anthers in our specimen with scarcely any pollen, and that 
imperfect. We did not inspect the germen. Style upright, 
columnar, overtopping the stamens; stigmas 3, green, 
. Spreading, subbifid. 
The incompleteness of the stamens and the apparent 
completeness of the pistil in our sample, suggested to Mr. 
Brown the possibility of the species being androgynous. ‘This 
however he mentioned as matter of mere surmise, it being 
very probable that the incomplete development of the sta- 
mens might arise from the flower being produced out of 
its natural climate. cz 
