petiole one-sixth of an inch to one-third of an inch long, 
deeply channelled above. Flowers five-sixths of an inch 
across, almost flat when fully expanded, pure white, 
arranged in rather open trichotomous panicles; primary 
branches of inflorescence, quadrangular, yellowish brown ; 
bracts deciduous, half an inch or less, falcately linear- 
lanceolate, margins ciliate ; pedicels one-sixth of an inch to 
a quarter of an inch long, rough with stellate hairs. Calyx 
a quarter of an inch long; tube hemispheric, densely 
_ clothed outside with scattered groups of minute white, 
stellate hairs; lobes as long as the tube, ovate-oblong, 
obtuse or obscurely mucronate, glabrous, and dark green 
within, margins ciliate. Petals obovate, puberulous out- 
side, margins undulate, tip cucullate. Stamens alternately 
long and short. The longer ones one-third of an inch 
long, the winged filaments tapering gradually upwards; 
short stamens a quarter of an inch long, the wings 
abruptly angular upwards, not bilobed; anthers minutely 
pilose. Fruiting-calyx one third of an inch across, lobes 
spreading or reflexed. Styles 38, persistent. Capsule 
hemispheric, three-celled.—J. F. Duture. : 
