two inches from the base. Peduncles often two or three from the 
same plant, a foot and a half or more long, axillary, solitary, 
angled, thick, erect, bearing from eight to ten flowers opening 
in succession. Pedicels short, thick. Calyx large, somewhat 
inflated, red, an inch and a half and more long, two-lipped, one 
lip often again divided: Zips entire. Corolla large, white, fleshy, 
salver-shaped : tube scarcely longer than the calyx: /imé of five 
spreading, obovate segments. Stamens exserted, attached to the 
mouth of the corolla. Ovary five-lobed, surrounded by a deep 
fleshy cup: Jobes two-seeded. Style as long as the tube of the 
corolla. Stigma a depressed, obscurely five-lobed head. Young 
fruit consists of five, ovate, somewhat triangular, acute nucules. 
_ Fig. 1. Stamen. 2. Pistil and hypogynous cup. 3. Cup cut through ver- 
tically. 4. Ovary cut through transversely :—magnijfied. 
