or oblanceolate, acute or acuminate, thickly coriaceous, 
bright green above, paler beneath; midrib rather stout ; 
nerves slender, very obscure, horizontally spreading and 
loosely anastomosing ; petiole stout, one-sixth to one-third 
of aninch long. Flowers one to one and a half inch in 
diameter, numerous, umbelled on a stout axillary peduncle 
two to three inches long; pedicels long, stout, one to one 
and a half inches long. Sepals much larger in proportion 
to the corolla than usual in the genus, oblong, obtuse, 
thickly coriaceous. Corolla quite glabrous, pale rather 
dull rose-red (the colour of blotting-paper externally) with 
yellowish edges; paler and yellowish within, with three faint 
pink stripes on each segment. Segments triangular-ovate, 
acute, thickly coriaceous, concave behind. Corona large, 
with five hemispheric lobes; these lobes have the convex 
surface downwards and longitudinally cleft, the flat surface 
upwards and produced inwards into a short ascending 
spine which reaches and rises above the stigma.—J. D. H. 
Fig. 1, Calyx and unopened corolla; 2, corona and base of corolla; 3, pollen- 
masses :—all enlarged. 
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