drooping flowers. Male and female flowers each with four 
spreading white sepa/s, the male the largest; in both, the two 
outer and larger, cordato-rotundate, slightly concave ones are the 
largest, and beautifully and longitudinally vemed with red; the 
inner and smaller sepals are nearly elliptical and pure white. 
Anthers yellow, in a compact capitulum. . rat three-winged, 
beautifully striated transversely with red ; two of the wings short 
~ rounded ; the third very much elongated transversely and 
obtuse. 
Fig. 1. Fruit :—magnified. 
