mature glabrous on the upper surface, finely pubescent 
beneath, denticulate and scabrous on the edges. lowers 
several, arranged in a lax deltoid corymb, on long erect or 
ascending glandular-pubescent peduncles. Perianth about 
an inch long, greenish on the outside, whitish within with 
copious minute purplish-brown spots; segments oblong- 
spathulate, spreading from halfway down when the flower 
is fully expanded ; the three outer ones deeply saccate and 
conspicuously foveolate at the base; the three inner ones 
neither saccate nor foveolate. Stamens nearly as long as 
the perianth ; filaments arching away from the centre of 
the flower at the top; anthers small, oblong, extrorse. 
Ovary linear, acutely angular, narrowed gradually into a 
short style; stigmas linear-subulate, papillose down to the 
base, spreading, half an inch long, deeply bifid. Capsule 
firm in texture, linear, acutely triangular, an inch or more 
long, dehiscing septicidally.—J. G. Baker. 
Fig. 1,a flower cut down the centre; 2, base of an outer segment of the perianth ; 
3, base of an Inner segment of the perianth; 4, a stamen complete; 5, apex of 
filament, with anther; 6, stigmas; 7, section of ovary :—all more or less magnified. 
