segments subulate, spreading. Corolla one and a half to two 
inches long: the ¢xde contracted in the middle, cream-coloured, 
the imb chocolate purple, with a pale transverse band; the 
segments connivent, large. Staminal crown double; exterior 
of five short, obtuse, double, slightly incurved teeth; interior of 
as many elongated, clavato-ligulate ones, connivent, three or four 
times as long as the outer: all pilose. 
Fig. 1. Staminal crown :-—magnified. 
