times shortly branched at the base. Leaves six to eight 
inches long, spreading and deflexed, narrowly oblong, 
obtuse, or acute, margins more or less irregularly lobulate 
or toothed and serrate, lower sometimes lyrate, or narrowed 
into a shert, broad petiole, upper sessile or semi- 
amplexicaul, midrib very thick. Flowers binate, or in 
fascicles of three, rarely more, two and a half inches in 
diameter across the corolla-limb, lower shortly pedicelled, 
upper sessile. Calye hispidly setose, lobes half an inch 
long, ovate-lanceolate; appendages similar, but smaller, 
broader, and deflexed. Corolla white, tube cup-shaped ; 
lobes eight, ovate-lanceolate, margins fimbriate. Style 
hispid with spreading hairs; stigma very large, oblong 
or obovoid, tip eight-lobulate.—J. D. H. 
Fig. 1, stamen; 2, stigma :—Both enlarged. 
