lower ovate-oblong, acute ; upper ovate-lanceolate, recurved, 

 cordate and auricled at the base. Flowers solitary on stout 

 peduncles, two to two and half inches in diameter. Calyx - 

 tube small, broader than long, concealed by the deflexed 

 bladdery appendages of the lobes, which are ovate-lanceolate, 

 hispid, and much enlarged in fruit. Corolla broadly cam- 

 panulate and very open ; pale dirty purple externally, within 

 dull purple reticulated with violet, and hairy towards the 

 base; lobes very broad, short, and acute. Stamens with 

 almost orbicular ciliate filaments, and long linear anthers. 

 Style straight, smooth, long-exserted, surmounted by a large 

 fusiform acute stigma an inch long and more, which separates 

 into three linear-oblong segments. — J. D. H. 



Fig. 1, Vertical section of Flower; 2, reticulated venation of the corolla; 

 3 and 4. back and front view of Stamens:— all enlarged. 



