obtuse, acute, or acuminate ; stipules foliaceous, one to two 
inches long, dimidiate-oblong, acuminate; petiole three 
inches long, sub-peltately attached, green, with a few 
scattered cupular glands. Flowers solitary, axillary, two 
and a half inches broad; peduncle shorter than the 
stipules, green; bracts small, lanceolate, acuminate. 
Calyzx-tube short, cup-shaped, base truncate and intruded, 
lobes an inch long, oblong, obtuse, green, white within. 
Petals rather longer than the sepals, oblong, obtuse, re- 
flexed, white, suffused with lilac. Corona longer than 
the petals, of several series of many spreading violet 
filaments, with white bases and cirrhose tips, all connate 
at the base in a membrane that is glandular within, inner- 
most filaments stouter, with sub-clavate three- to five- 
lobed tips. Gynophore short, cylindric. Anthers large, 
yellow. Ovary oblong, styles and large globose stigmas 
streaked with red.—J. D. H. 
_ . Fig. 1, Longitudinal section of calyx-tube with portion of the corona; 
_ 2, base and innermost filaments of the corona :—Both enlarged. 
