at the base, silky, or rather glanduloso-hirsuta in our specimens, 
beneath. Flowers solitary, upon the peduncles a little drooping, 
moderately large in cultivated specimens, small in native ones. 
Peduncle and calyzx-tube villose, the hairs tipped with a gland ; 
the limb of four, rarely five, ovato-lanceolate, acuminated seg- 
ments, shorter than the petals, pubescenti-villous on the outside. 
Petals broad-obcordate, four, rarely five, spreading, white. /ruit 
globoso-turbinate, rather small, glandular, crowned with the per- 
sistent calyx-segments. Stamens numerous. Styles free. 
Fig. 1. Flower, from which the petals are removed,—magnified. 2. Fruit,— 
nat. size. 
