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 Lid hemispherical, with a little point. Umbels panicled in a sort of terminal corymbus.

This, when in flower, is the most magnificent of its genus. The leaves are lanceolate, astringent and acrid, but scarcely at all aromatic. Flower-stalks all compressed. Lid somewhat membranous.

All the species are destitute of hairiness or pubescence, the leaves simple, lanceolate, or ovato-lanceolate, pointed, entire, most frequently oblique, and often unequal at the base, on angular footstalks, without stipulæ. Stamina very numerous. Style and stigma simple.

There seems to be another species in the gardens, with narrow leaves, the young ones of a rich purple, but its flowers are as yet unknown.