interpetiolary in our specimen, long, pendent, thickened and 
dilated at the apex, where it bears an wméel or rather a fascicle 
of a considerable number of flowers, all hanging downwards, of 
a tawny-orange colour. Calyx small, five-lobed. Corolla rotate, 
of five ovate segments, which segments are strongly reflexed upon 
the pedicel, and the margins are recurved ; the disc of the corolla 
cushioned, as it were, with a dense cottony mass, mixed with 
ei hairs. Staminal crown singularly large and as described 
above. 
Fig. 1. Staminal crown, magnified. 
