О 
fugacious, tender, obovately spatulate, undulate, shorter 
than calyx, upper two largest. Filaments enclosed, hairy, 
inserted in two alternating series in the faux of the calyx, 
five shorter than the rest, uppermost two-bearded, with 
dense purplish wool close under the anther. Style ‘white, 
enclosed, subulately lengthened, nearly smooth, with a few 
downy, hairs scattered above the middle, curved at the top, 
persistent, continuous with the thin membranous white 
tapered germen: stigma subcapitate. 
The drawing was taken late in the autumn at the nur- 
sery of Messrs. Whitley, Brames, and Milne, at Parson's 
Green, where it was kept in the greenhouse. 
— 
а А flower dissected vertically, showing the insertion of the petals into 
the calyx, ‘and that of the stamens, 6 The pistil, 
с2 
