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without flowers below; pedicles variously fastigiant; bractes 
nearly of the same nature as the leaflets of the calyx, re- 
curved at the top. Calyx pale green, patent, viscously 
villous without, a third shorter than the corolla; leaflets 
lanceolate, slightly unequal. Tube of the corolla three times 
longer than the laminas of the petals, pale, cylindric, slightly 
ventricose, with five sutures marking the cohesions of the 
ungues that constitute it; viscous within; laminas of the limd 
deeper yellow, smooth, oblong, obtuse, first patent, then 
revolute. Filaments white, the length of the tube: anthers 
of a dusky tawny colour, peering from the tube, sagittately 
oblong, appended by the back considerably above their 
base, fronting inwards, bursting along the sides: pollen yel- 
low. Germen oblong, shaggy, russet-coloured, bilocular, 
filled with resinous lymph: ovules numerous: style green, 
round, straight, twice as short as the germen: stigma capi- 
tate, rather flattened. 
A greenhouse plant, flowering from March to August. 
The drawing was made at the nursery of Messrs, Whitley, 
Brames, and Milne, King’s Road, Parson’s Green, Fulham. 
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А аА flower dissected, showing the insertion of the stamens, ¿ The 
pistil. 
