bearing leaves only at the base of the larger branches.
Flowers very abundant, in whorls. The persistent enlarged
petals, in which the main character exists, are verv
large, broadly cordate, entire, or only crisped at the margin,
quite destitute of a tubercle, and beautifully veined and
reticulated. Nut ovate-triquetrous, pale brown, tipped
with a short point, the remains of the style.
The root leaf here figured is, necessarily, reduced.—
W.J.H.
