puberulous. Bracts linear, puberulous, 3-5 lin. long, soon 
disappearing. Bracteoles 6, dissimilar; the lowest pair 
below the middle of the pedicel very small, opposite, soon 
disappearing ; the remaining four close-set near the base of 
the pistil, persistent, accrescent, ultimately scarious, strongly 
veined ; of these the two outer or lower anterior and posterior, 
both smaller than the two inner or upper, but themselves 
unequal; the anterior lower ovate, obtuse, wide-based, 
embracing the pedicel and about 8 lin. long, the posterior 
similar but only about 3 lin. long; the two upper or inner 
rounded-oblong, slightly oblique, auriculaeform, peltate, 3-1 
in. across in the widest part when mature, and quite conceal- 
ing the capsule. Calyx limb 5-partite, lobes nearly equal, 
linear, about 24 lin. long, glandular, very pointed, persistent. 
Corolla pale rose, inflated tubular, 2-lipped, about 14 in. 
long; tube narrowed below the middle, cylindric; lobes 
nearly equal, rounded-oblong, spreading, about 5 lin. long ; 
lower lip marked with orange lines. Stamens 4, didynamous, 
included. Ovary inferior, hirsute, 4-celled, with 2 fertile 
l-ovuled cells and 2 sterile cells with several imperfect 
ovules in each; style filiform, glabrous, somewhat exserted, 
Fruit (only seen unripe) angled, tipped by the persistent 
calyx lobes, about 8 lin. long, hidden by the accrescent 
bracteoles. 
Fig. 1, peltate bracteoles, calyx and pistil; 2, the same with one peltate 
bracteole removed ; 3, base of the corolla, laid open; 4, anther :—all enlarged. 
