greatly narrowed base, hairy on both sides, the hairs on the 
midrib being longer than the rest and like those on the 
stem, entire, undulate, rather paler below than above ; pe- 
tiole about one-fifth part of the length of the leaf, chan- 
nelled above, spreading, very hairy on the back. Peduncles 
lateral in reference to the petioles, half as long as, or equal- 
ling the length of the leaf, hairy, umbellate ; flowers ex- 
panding in succession ; bracts involucrate, ovato-lanceolate, 
acuminate, deciduous; pedicels about one-third of the 
length of the peduncle, less hairy. Calyx 5-partite ; seg- 
ments ovato-lanceolate, acuminate, slightly hairy, conni- 
vent, veined. Corolla (an inch and a quarter long, an inch 
and a half across) perfumed, white, somewhat fleshy, funnel- 
shaped, having a very few erect hairs near the throat, every- 
where else glabrous ; tube longer than the calyx, swollen 
below, and having five gibbosities alternating with the 
segments of the calyx, scarcely angled above, faintly mark- 
ed with greenish veins on the outside; limb five-parted, 
segments ovate, spreading and reflected. Crown of five 
linear-oblong, green, flat, fleshy segments, erect in the 
tube of the corolla, to which they are adpressed, in their 
lower half adherent by their backs, and alternate with 
its gibbosities, shorter than the tube. Stamens mona- 
delphous, opposite to the lobes of the crown, and subsessile 
upon a fleshy mass on the inside of the base of each of these, 
each terminated by an ovate, thin and colourless, membran- 
ous appendage, which is spread upon the side of the stigma 
alternately with small, dark purple, rhomboid glands, which 
are split vertically on the outer side, and have suspended 
from them, by short, straight arms, two flattened, elliptical, 
yellow pollen-masses, which are lodged in cavities on the 
inside of the base of the membranous appendages. Each 
starmen has two yellow, cartilaginous spwrs, involute in the 
edges, and projecting downwards by the side of the short, 
stout, herbaceous filament, into cavities alternating with the 
fleshy masses on the inside of the segments of the crown, 
from which the stamens arise, so that in each cavity there is 
a spur from two adjoining stamens ; and as the glands are 
immediately above these spurs, the pollen-masses from each 
_ belong to two stamens. Stigma large, white, angled upon 
the sides from the indentation of the stamens, rounded on 
the top, without any appendages. Styles two, short, erect, 
parallel, yellow. Ovules very numerous, slender, attached 
to large receptacles from the inside of the germen. Graham. 
Fig. 1. Crown. 2, The same laid open. 3, Stamen. 4. Pollen-masses. 5. Pistils: 
magnified. 
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