sometimes much elongated, and between obovate and spathu- 
late ; tip always rounded and sometimes emarginate ; margins 
slightly recurved; nerves few, spreading, almost invisible in 
the fresh state. Cymes in terminal clusters, or solitary, three or 
more flowered, corymbose ; peduncles and short pedicels 
as thick as a goosequill, smooth; bracts and bracteoles very 
short, triangular. Ca/yz nearly one inch long, ovoid, cleft to 
above the middle into rounded, appressed, overlapping lobes, 
with scarious margins when dry. Corolla white, leathery ; 
tube four inches long, funnel-shaped above ; limb three to four 
inches in diameter; lobes oblong, thick, spreading and recurved, 
nerveless. Stamens with very slender unequal filaments longer 
than the tube. Anthers nearly one-half inch long, broadly 
oblong, obtuse, pale yellow. Ovary cylindric; style slender, 
exserted ; stigma green, capitate.—/. D. H. 
Fig. 1, Specimen of natural size ; 2, ovary; 8, transverse section of ovary ; 
4, top of filament and anther :—all magnified. 
