ose, deciduous bracteze supplying the place of an involu- 
crum. Flower-stalks downy, with fuscous lines. Flowers 
on one side, drooping, whitish-grey, covered all over with 
minute dark spots. Calyx 4-5-cleft, with oval obtuse leaves 
coming up as high as the sinuses of the corolla. Corolla 
salver-formed, campanulate, with a very short tube, and 
ovate, obtuse, arched, fleshy, shining lobes, which have an 
opaque cushion-like space in the centre of their base. Sta- 
mens sessile, in the orifice of the tube, opposite to the lobes 
of the corolla. Anthers somewhat arrow-headed, conniv- 
ing into a cone. Ovary ovate, shining, superior, with very 
many dots. Style subulate. Stigma simple. Y 
J..L. 
