an inch in diameter ; peduncle slender. Invol. bracts much 

 shorter than the flowers, brown, scarious, outer oblong, 

 concave, 1 -nerved, nerve ending in a mucro, inner narrower, 

 acuminate ; floral bracts (or bracteoles) much larger than 

 the involucral, broadly obovate-oblong, membranous, 

 hyaline, with a thick midrib from the base to the middle, 

 or higher. Perianth half an inch broad. Calyx cam- 

 panulate, about one-quarter of an inch long, scarious, 

 glabrous, except five narrow pubescent ribs ending in short 

 scabrid awns, mouth truncate, undulate. Petals obovate- 

 spathulate, 2-lobed, pale rose-coloured. Stamens with 

 erect, subulate, glabrous filaments, and oblong, pale 

 anthers. Ovary obconic, deeply 2-5-lobed, glabrous, styles 

 very slender, spreading and ascending, hairy below the 

 middle. Utricle as long as the bracts. — J. D. H. 



Fig. 1, Leaf ; 2 and 3, outer bracts ; 4, inner bract and calyx ; 5, flower ; 

 6, pistil -.—All enlarged. 



