crenate; nerves five to seven, spreading from the top of 

 the petiole, strong beneath ; upper surface dark green, 

 lower pale ; petiole terete, stout, of the lower leaves six 

 to eight inches long, of the upper shorter. Peduncles three 

 to four inches long, one-fid., stout, erect or inclined. 

 Flowers inclined, three inches in diameter. Epicalyxoi 

 five green ovate-oblong spreading segments slightly ad- 

 hering at the base. Calyx short, rather inflated, shortly 

 five-lobed; lobes broadly triangular, obtuse, strongly three- 

 nerved. Petals one and a half inch long, broadly obovate, 

 cihate, strongly nerved, . white or pale cream-coloured, 

 suffused with pink at the base. Staminal column short ; 

 filaments about one quarter of an inch long, whitish, 

 anthers yellow. Style short, with five large spathulate 

 recurved bright-red stigmas. Capsule two-thirds of an 

 inch long, hirsute. Seeds small, reniform, hairy.— J. D. B. 



4 Sfn^n 1 ^ *- 01 Ie A ! Win g tn « under surface; 2, stamen; 3, ovary; 

 % transferee section of ditto -.—all enlarged. 



