margins; petiole very slender, three to four inches long. 
Scape very slender, longer than the petioles, many-flowered; 
bracts very small; pedicels slender, one to two inches 
long, and, as well as the calyx, more or less glandular- 
pubescent. Sepals one-fourth of an inch long, linear- 
oblong, acute, with a red callus on the back beneath the 
tip. Corolla pale lilac, one inch in diameter or less; 
petals obovate-spathulate, very broad at the rounded tip, 
spreading and recurved. Staminal tube glabrous, filaments 
pubescent, the shorter ones not half the length of the 
styles, the longer four times as long; anthers small, 
didymous. Ovary elongate, pubescent; styles short, sub- 
erect, subulate, pubescent, shorter than the cells, stigmas 
capitate.—J. D. H. 
Fig. 1, Flower with the petals removed ; 2, sepal; 3 and 4, anthers; 5, staminal 
column and styles; 6, ovary :—all enlarged, 
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