bristles, under-surface with a prominent mid-rib. Scape very 
short, woolly, 2 to 4 flowered, pedicels very short. Flowers 
3 of an inch in diameter. Sepals very concave, bristly at the 
back, green, tipped with red brown. Petals three times as 
large as the sepals, obovate-cuneate, retuse, spreading, quite 
white. Stamens about equalling the sepals. Pods on corymbs, 
% of an inch long, ellipsoid, very compressed, about 8 seeded ; 
valves flat, hispid; style very short indeed, stigma minute. 
Seeds oblong, with short funicles. 
dev. Ty 
Fig. 1, leaf; 2, flower; 3, the same with the petals removed; 4, ovary; 
5, fruiting branches ; 6, pods; 7, the same with one valve remoyed, showing the 
seeds ; all but fig. 5 magnified. 
