acuminate, entire, or more or less deeply sinuato-dentate, vary- 
ing much in size, from half an inch to one and a half inch or 
two inches. Peduncles axillary, solitary, often opposite, single- 
flowered, much shorter than the flower. Bracteas two, oppo- 
site, small (as compared with those of MZ, Hawteyneana), oblong, 
acute, submembranaceous, pale green. Ca/yx quite concealed 
by the bracteas, cyathiform, white, cut into twelve or fourteen 
erect subulate feeth. Corolla with the tube elongated, slightly 
curved, infundibuliform, pale yellow ; Zimd large, spreading, pur- 
ple (fava deep yellow), of five, nearly equal, subrotundato-ob- 
cordate segments. Stamens four, didynamous, included. Fila- 
ments glanduloso-pilose in front. Anthers one-celled, the margin 
of the cell deeply fringed with subclavate hairs. Ovary globose, 
seated upon a large, thick, fleshy receptacle. Style as long as 
the tube of the corolla, slightly hairy above. Stigma of two very 
distinct lips: superior lip erect, the sides involute ; inferior lip 
_ patent, obcordate, spreading, with a minute tooth on each side 
at the base. Fruit I have not seen. 
Fig. 1. Calyx and pistil. 2. Ovary and receptacle. 3, Stamen :—magnified. 
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