with purple on one side. eaves about four inches long, alter- 
nate, distant, oblong or subelliptical, quite undivided and entire 
at the margin, subcoriaceous, the base obtuse, the apex shortly 
acuminated ; penniveined, the vems connected by slender vein- 
lets. Petiole short, about half an inch long, bearing below the 
apex two prominent glands. Stipules two, linear-subulate, her- 
baceous. Peduacle about an inch long, solitary, axillary, single- 
flowered, having a little below the flower three large erect bracts 
or Jeafiets, of an oval shape, membranaceous, green, erect, faintly 
and distantly striated, crenato-dentate at the apex; teeth few, 
distant, each bearing a conspicuous gland ; these three constitute 
the iavolucre, which is about half the length of the flower. Se- 
pais narrow-oblong, greenish-white without, red within. Corona 
consisting of a double ray; exterior of several filaments half the 
length of the interior, purple, barred with white at the base, and 
white at the subcapitate apex; zazer row of numerous, equal, 
thickened but compressed filaments, barred with white and red 
at the base, and white-purple and white in the upper half; the 
apex dilated and toothed: there is an innermost circle or ring, 
which is tuberculated, and which would be considered by some 
as a third ray. Colwmn, stamens, and styles and stigmas as in the 
genus. 
Fig. 1. Section of a portion of the flower, showing the nature of the corona 
Jilamentosa :—magnified. 
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