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into a terete, stiff, green petiole, three to six inches long, 
dark glossy green above, paler beneath, plicate and 
traversed by ten to twelve prominent nerves, which are 
united by transverse nervules. Raceme radical, shortly 
peduncled, sub-corymbiform, about three inches long, very 
dense-fid. ; bracts membranous, as long as the flowers, 
ovate, acuminate. Flowers half an inch in diameter, shortly 
pedicelled, nodding, pedicel jointed above the middle. 
Perianth broadly campanulate, pale yellow, with a dark 
purple disk formed of the confluent filaments ; 
broadly obconic; limb superior, of six broad Spreading 
membranous lobes in two series, outer broadly ovate, inner 
oblong-ovate. Filaments united ina horizontal dark purple 
membrane, nearly closing the tube, but leaving a hexagonal 
opening over the stigma; anthers small, erect. Ovary 
inferior, 38-celled, surmounted by a small sessile central 
pyramidal 6-lobed obtuse stigma; ovules several in each 
cell, basal, erect, anatropous. Fruit an inch long, ovoid, 
obtuse, terete, dark blue, smooth, shining, surrounded at 
the base by the withered perianth.—J. D. H. 
tube very 
Fig. 1, Bracts and flower-bud, of the natural size; 
2, section of flower; 
3, portion of staminal ring; 4, stigma :—All enlarged. 
