rose-coloured scales, sometimes tipped with yellowish-green. 
The white flowers force back the rose-coloured bracts, and pro- 
trude a very little beyond them. Calya of three erect imbrica- 
ting almost mucronate sepals, nearly as long the corolla, united 
into a tube at the base. Petals pure white, with a spathulate 
“imb and broad white claws. Stamens as long as the claws. 
Filaments \inear-subulate, crisped and tortuose above the middle. 
Anthers small, linear. Ovary ovate, tapering into a thickened 
style, and terminated by three cuneate nearly erect stigmas. 
Fig. 1. Entire flower. 2, Petal and two stamens. 38. Pistil :—all magnified. 
