having a slightly reflected curvature, broadly ligulate, of a rather 
full green on the upper side, paler beneath, when seen under a 
microscope slightly filamentose or flocculose on the surface, the 
margin spinuloso-serrate; the base is very convex, somewhat 
utriculose ; the rest convex, or rather canaliculate, plane to- 
wards the apex, which latter is obtuse, with a spinulose acumen. 
Peduncle central, shorter than the leaves, terete, imbricated with 
large, lax, oblong, or lanceolate and acuminated, involute, red 
éracteas, and terminated by a dense thyrsoid spite of many red 
flowers. Flowers sessile or nearly so. Ovary inferior, oblong, 
and, as well as the three short, erect lobes of the calyx, clothed 
with a white powder. Pefals three, elongated, four times as 
long as the calyx, subspathulate ; the apex reflexed, oblique, and 
ciliated ; the margin below involute, with two teeth near the base, 
and one higher up on each side. At the base of each petal are 
also two fimbriated scales. Stamens shorter than the petals. 
Anthers yellow. Style longer than the stamens, terminated by 
__ the three dark-green, spirally twisted lobes of the stigma. 
Fig. 1. Flower. 2. Petal and stamen. 3. Pistil :—more or less magnified. 
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