cymes; pedicels short, glabrous. Calyx segments one- 
third of an inch long, subulate. Corolla nearly one inch in 
diameter, tube almost hemispherical, rounded at the base ; 
limb short spreading, five-toothed, the teeth short trian- 
gular acute remote, with a minute intermediate tooth; the 
tube is white inside, the limb deep violet-purple, sharply 
defined in a circle against the white of the tube. Colwmn 
short; outer corona adnate to the base of the column, 
spreading horizontally from it, five-lobed; lobes fleshy, 
rounded, quite entire, concave on the surface; inner corona 
of five large subulate fleshy papillose teeth inserted one at the 
back of each anther, inflected over the stigma and meeting 
at their points. Anthers truncate; pollen-masses pyriform, 
caudicle short; gland with two subulate auricles. Stigma 
discoid, five-angled.—J. D. H. 
Fig. 1, Four sepals, portion of the base of the corolla and column ; 2, column with 
outer and inner corona; 3, side, and 4, front view of anther and inner coronal 
appendage ; 5, stigma and pollen-masses; 6, pollen-masses :—ad/ enlarged. 
