lanceolate-deltoid, about as long as the pedicels. Perianth 
mauve-pink, rotate when fully expanded ; segments ovate- 
lanceolate, acute, five or six lines long. Stamens rather 
shorter than the perianth-segments ; filaments all alike, subu- 
late ; anthers small, oblong. Ovary depresso-globose, deeply 
three-lobed. Style a quarter of an inch long; ovules two in 
each cell, basal, collateral, erect.—J. G. Baker. 
_ Fig. 1, An open flower, natural size; 2, a single stamen ; 8, the pistil: 4, ver- 
tical section of ovary :—all three magnified. 
