two to four lines long. Pedicels and calyx puberulous. 
Flowers yellow, campanulate, one and a half to one and 
three quarters of an inch in diameter, more or less nodding. 
Calye hemispherical, about five or six lines in diameter, 
five-toothed. Petals five, free, thick, brittle, oblong- 
lanceolate, recurved above the middle, contorted in zstiva- 
tion, overlapping to the left. Stamens fifteen, in three 
series ; outer series longest, shorter than the petals ; inner 
series shortest; filaments filiform; anthers two-celled, 
dehiscing longitudinally. Ovary half-superior, three- 
celled (or sometimes four-celled, Yatabe), glabrous; cells 
many-ovuled; styles glabrous, filiform, free to the base, 
included. Capsule dehiscing loculicidally, crowned by 
the persistent, spreading styles. Seeds numerous, flat, 
obliquely winged; embryo straight in the axis of the 
fleshy albumen; cotyledons ovate, about as long as the 
terete radicle.—W. B. H. 
Fig. 1, gynzeceum and part of calyx; 2, a petal and adherent stamens; 
3 and 4, anthers; 5, cross-section of ovary; 6, vertical section of the same :— 
all enlarged. 
