quite entire. Sowers axillary, solitary, very shortly pedi- 
celled. Calyx quinquepartite ; lobes linear, hispidly pilose, 
rather shorter than the tube. Corolla salver-shaped, plaited ; 
tube contracted in the middle, pilose ; dimb one inch across, 
white, nearly flat, five-angled, angles subacute; lobes hairy 
along the back to the calyx; throat narrow. Anthers in- 
cluded, sessile, linear, pubescent at the tips. Ovary oblong- 
_ conic, four-celled, with a narrow adnate four-lobed concave 
disk at its base ; style slender, stigma capitate, crowned with 
stiff erect bristles. Capsule small, enclosed in the persistent 
calyx-lobes.—J. D. H. 
Fig.1. Calyx. 2. Tube of corolla laid open. 3. Anther. 4, Germen 
and disk. 5. Transverse section of ovary :—all magnified. 
