flowered, about twice as long as the petiole, furnished 

 with 3 small closely scattered membranous flat-pressed 

 linearly subulate bractes placed a little below the joint. 

 Flowers about two inches across, greenish white, faintly 

 clouded with purple on the outside. Calyx coriaceous, from 

 urceolate below, radiately expanded above; tube orurceolus 

 very shallow vividly green on the inside, flat at the bottom 

 on the outside, segments | of an inch long, cuneately oblong, 

 narrow, obtuse, of the same shape and colour as the petals, 

 which are three times smaller and of a very tender consist- 

 ence : crown two-ranked, twice shorter than the corolla, outer 

 rank numerous, close, simple, radii thickish cylindrical 

 rather obtuse obliquely truncated from the top inwards, 

 vividly green below, variegated with purple and white 

 above, inner rank much shorter, simple, radii of the same 

 colour as those of the outer rank, several times slenderer 

 filiformly clavate upright capitate glandularly frosted at the 

 top. Operculum or lid incumbent closely plaited frosted 

 pale and greenish, thickly besprinkled with minute purple 

 dots : nectai-y shallow, with a short fleshy thick obsoletely 

 toothed partly double partition which is frosted at the inner 

 side. Column of fructification a little shorter than the 

 calyx; shaft smooth, but little shorter than the petals: 

 filaments burnt-brown, divaricate and recurved; anthers 

 linearly oblong, blackish; pollen deep yellow. Germen 

 roundish, opaquely green, obsoletely three-cornered: styles 

 divaricate, purplish black, twice as long as the germen, 

 filiformly clavate, channelled inwards: stigmas orbicular, 

 pileate or cap-headed, pulvinate or pillowed, cernuous, in- 

 tensely green. 



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