as thick as one’s finger, between furfuraceous and woolly, leafy, 
the leaves remote, gradually smaller upwards till they pass into 
the bracteas of the inflorescence. Raceme a span long, of many 
large, spreading, at length reflexed flowers, rather lax, or mo- 
derately compact, bracteated. Bracteas membranaceous, ovate, 
much and finely acuminated, very concave, as long as the calyx 
and pedicel. Pedicels very short. Calyz large, almost an inch 
long, formed of three connivent yellow ovate-lanceolate sepals. 
Petals large, white, thrice as long as the calyx, slightly twisted 
and imbricated, linear-oblong, spathulate, the apex often re- 
flexed, the sides more or less involute, the base within‘ destitute 
of scale. Stamens six, as long as or a little longer than the 
petals. Anthers linear-oblong, yellow. Ovary almost entirely, 
if not quite superior, oblong-ovate with three furrows, tapering 
into the filiform white s¢y/e, which equals the stamens in length. 
Stigmas three, green, spirally twisted. 
Fig. 1. Petal. 2. Pistil:—magnified. 
