nerves beneath, and both have scattered hairs. Flowers 

 very numerous, shortly ped uncled, two and a half inches 

 in diameter. Perianth-tube broadly turbinate, two-thirds 

 of an inch long, smooth, externally lacunose, internally 

 the lacunae answer to cavities in the tissue of its walls; 

 mouth of perianth small, with a pendulous velum, at the 

 base of a deep black purple cup, the lips of which form a 

 deep rim with inverted edges round the mouth of the cup, 

 and are strongly plaited on the inner surface ; lobes of the 

 perianth three, unequal, nearly an inch long, very broadly 

 ovate with rounded tips and deeply undulate margins. 

 Filaments very short ; anthers oblong, cells on the margin 

 of a thick shortly produced and two-lobed connective. 

 Styles very stout ; stigmas linear-oblong, decurved, with 

 recurved rounded tips. — J. D. H. 



Fig 1, Bract; 2, flower (of the natural size); 3, section of perianth-tube and 

 cup, showing the deflexed velum ; 4 and 5, stamens ; 0, styles and stigmas :— all 

 but Jiff. 2 enlarged. J & 



