base of the corolla. Corolla with the tuée yellow, infundibuli- 
form, very narrow below the middle, much inflated and almost 
globose at the base, dilated upwards, and there sprinkled with 
dark, blood-red spots. ZLimé of five, oblong-ovate, obtuse seg- 
ments, which are erecto-connivent into a cone, concave or grooved 
at the back, yellow, with a transverse band of dark brown, almost 
black-purple above the middle, the tips green: staminal crown 
cup-shaped, fleshy; external folioles five, erect, bifid, the segments 
subulate, villous with long hairs; interior of five, erect, linear- 
spathulate, glabrous ones, twice as long as the outer. 
Fig. 1. Corona staminea :—magnified. 
