naked, or sometimes with one or two fibrous glands. Siz- 
pules very large, leafy, an inch and more long, waved, 
reticulated, especially beneath, coarsely serrated. Cirrhi 
long, simple. —Peduncles solitary, single-flowered, bearing: 
beneath the flower three alternate, ovato-cordate, waved 
bracteas, almost as long as the flower. Flower about two 
inches in diameter. Calyx white within, of five oblongo- 
lanceolate sezments, with a long soft green mucro beneath 
the apex. Petals five, of the same shape as the calycine 
segments, white. Nectary double ; inner of numerous, 
short, erect, white filaments, tipped with blue, and woolly 
at their base; outer of numerous, spreading’ filaments, 
nearly as long as the corolla, white, barred with purplish 
blue. Column short. Stigmas club-shaped, recurved. 
