our growing specimens four to five inches, in our native speci- 
mens a span long, subcoriaceous, oblongo-ovate, subacute, penni- 
nerved, entire, tapering below into a short petiole, all alternate. 
Racemes spicate, solitary, axillary and terminal, shorter than the 
leaves, erect, six- to eight- or ten-flowered. Flowers the largest 
of the genus. Pedicels short. Calyx of five sepals, three outer 
very small, green, ovate, of which two are combined and un- 
equally bifid. Two inner sepals corolloid, white, with a tinge of 
green and black, obliquely ovate, a little falcate, obscurely nerved, 
three-quarters of an inch long, both close-pressed to the corolla. 
Corolla a little longer than the inner sepals (or ale); inner pe- 
tals combined for the greater portion of their length into a tube, 
white and compressed. Lateral petals linear, subacute, inter- 
mediate one cucullate and three-lobed, and rose-coloured at the 
apex. Stamens also combined into a tube; the jilaments free 
above. Anther ovate. Ovary orbicular, compressed, emargi- 
‘Nate. Style filiform, curved upwards, and clavate towards the 
apex. Stigma cleft. 
Fig. 1. Calyx and pistil, the corolla removed. 2. Corolla. 3. Stamens :— 
magnified, 
