with yellowish nerves, margins green ; petiole three-fourths 
of an inch long, green, pubescent. Flowers long-peduncled, 
three and a half to four inches in diam.; peduncle one to 
two and a half inches long. Sepals three, oblong, pale 
rose-colrd., glabrous. Petals about six, obovate, very con- 
cave, white. Stamens very many, strongly incurved; 
‘anthers about equalling the filaments, blood-red, tips 
obtuse. Carpels few, lanceolate, adnate to the axis of the 
gynophone. Ovules two.—J. D. H. 
Fig. 1, Portion of under surface of leaf; 2 and 3, stamens; 4, young 
carpel :—All enlarged. 
