at the base. Vower one and a half inches in diameter, 
pure white with a faint crimson streak along the midrib of 
the three smaller petals. Calyx with a short turbinate tube, 
and a broad spathaceous green apiculate limb, one-third 
inch long, which is truncate at the base. Petals erecto- 
patent, obovate-oblong, rounded at the apex, obscurely 
veined ; three upper rather smaller. Stamens ten; filaments 
almost free, and slightly hairy at the base; five longer 
equalling the style, of which two have each a lateral spur above 
the base ; five shorter stamens half as long as the others ; 
anthers all oblong, obtuse, yellow; cells ciliate at the base. 
Ovary stipitate, free, slender; style stout, elongate, stigma 
large, capitate. Pod three inches long by nearly one half inch 
broad, scimitar-shaped, acuminate, contracted at the base, flat, 
glabrous, obscurely reticulately nerved, convex edge flat, 
about 6-seeded, interior almost divided between the seeds by 
a thin down.—/. D. H. 
Vig. 1, Leaf and portion of stem; 2, flower, with the petals removed ; 
3, long and short stamens :—all magnified. 
