nicle, bearing a few, large, lanceolate, acuminate, marcescent, 
brownish bracts at the base; dracteoles very caducous ; rachis 
and branches stout, dark-purple. Ca/ya half an inch to three- 
quarters of an inch long, cylindrical or subclavate; the ude, 
whieh is adnate with ovary, scarlet ; the md of three, oval, pink- 
coloured lobes, each distinctly mucronate and very concave. Pe- 
tals obovato-spathulate, obtuse, concave, pink: at the base of 
the petals within are two white, oblong, membranaceous scales, 
fringed at the apex. Stamens six ; filaments dilated upwards : 
anthers oblong, submucronate. Sty/e filiform, shorter than the 
corolla: séagma small, trifid. 
Fig. 1. Thyrsus and portion of a leaf,—zatural size. 2. Flower. 3. Petals, 
with their two scales and two stamens. 4. Calyx, laid open, showing the style : 
—more or less magnified. 
