villously pubescent with silky hairs on both surfaces, 
Flowers about two-thirds of an inch in diameter, corym- 
bosely crowded at the tips of the branches, very shortly 
pedicelled. Calyw-tube villously-hairy, funnel-shaped, mem- 
branous; lobes oblong, obtuse, white, streaked with 
purplish-red. Corona a very low, crenate membrane, 
surrounding the mouth of the calyx-tube. Gynophore 
much shorter than the calyx-tube, cylindric, glabrous. 
Filaments erect, very slender; anthers yellow. Ovary 
ellipsoid, hirsute ; styles three, filiform, divergent, inserted 
on the sides of the ovary below its summit; stigmas small, 
dilated. —J. D. H. 
Fig. 1, Flower laid open; 2 and 3, anthers; 4, ovary :—A// enlaryed. 
