three to three and a half inches in diameter, undulate, 

 nearly white externally with very pale pink stride ; limb 

 internally white, obscurely striate with pale pink, and with 

 five lanceolate rose-pink rays spreading from the tube to 

 the circumference. Stamens included, filaments very 

 slender, rather villous at the base ; anthers oblong. Ovary 

 two-celled, cells two-ovuled; style very slender, sparsely 

 pubescent, stigma didymous. — /. J). H. 



Fig. 1, Stellate scales from the upper surface of the leaf; 2 and 3, stamens ; 

 4, ovary and style ; 5, transverse section of ovarj' : — all but Jiff. 5 enlarged. 



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