Petals with long, nearly free claws; blade orbicular, rose- 
coloured, half an inch broad. laments densely bearded 
throughout their length with articulate azure hairs; 
anthers minute, golden-yellow. Ovary oblong; style 
villous. Capsule clavate, three-lobed, valves confluent 
with the placentas leaving no free axis where the capsule 
dehisces. Seeds pyramidal, four-sided, obscurely pitted.— 
J.D. A, 
Fig. 1, bract with spike after the fall of the corollas and stamens; 2, calyx; 
3, stamen ; 4, pistil; 5, hair from stamen; 6, seed :—all enlarged, 
