bears a drooping wmbel of racemes of flowers ; the umbel involu- 
_ crated with about four leaves, and each pedicel, which is long 
_ and slender, bearing a leafy bract at its base. /owers pendent. 
Sepals three, oblong, straight, orange-red, tipped with black. 
_ Petals three, straight, spathulate, pale yellow, tipped with green, 
and that green streaked with brown: within, at the base, is a 
grooved triangular scale or nectary. Stamens a little longer than 
the petals. Ovary turbinate with a circle of glands just below 
the insertion of the perianth. Sfy/e shorter than the stamens. 
Stigma obtuse. : 
* 
Fig. 1. Petal. 2. Pistil :-—natural size. 
