sometimes a foot in length, and an inch and a half in breadth, 

 narrowed gradually to the point, the two upper ones linear. 

 Perianth oblong-infundibuliform, two or two and a half inches 

 long, a light bright mauve-purple inside and out in the upper 

 two-thirds, bright yellow at the base. Segments pubescent 

 at the base and puberulent outside at the deltoid tip, the 

 three outer oblong, under an inch broad at the middle, the 

 three inner obovate, an inch and a quarter broad above the 

 middle. Stamens an inch long, the linear-oblcng blackish 

 anthers shorter than the bright yellow filaments, which are 

 bearded on the thickened part near the base. Ovary green, 

 cylindrical-trigonous, a sixth of an inch in diameter ; stigmas 

 each a line broad. — J. G. Baker. 



Fig. 1, Tip of a segment of the perianth ; 2 and 3, single stamens :— both magnified. 



