connate into a cylindric short sheath, with two rows of 

 thick, erect setiform processes on their sides. Flowers cream - 

 white, collected into a globose dense head as large as a 

 small fist. Peduncle very stout, cylindric ; each flower one 

 to one and a half inches long. Ovary globose, pubescent. 

 Calyx teeth small, acute. Corolla thick in texture, funnel- 

 shaped ; lobes very thick, tips scarcely inflexed. Filaments 

 long; anthers included. Style slender; stigmas linear. — J.D.II. 



Fig. 1. Stipules, stem and base of leaf. 2. Flowers, both qfnat. size. 

 3. Stamen. 4. Pistil and calyx. 5. Transverse section of ovary. 6. Ovule : 

 — all magnified. 



