membranaceous and coriaceous, broad-lanceolate, moderately 
acuminated, entire, glabrous, shortly petiolated, penninerved. 
Stipules rather small, from a broad base, subulate, close-pressed. 
Flowers terminal, solitary, fragrant, nearly sessile. Calya, the 
adherent ‘ube oblong-cylindrical, the free portion small, cup- 
shaped, the margin five-toothed, the inside lined with hairs. Co- 
rolla moderately large, white, or rather cream-white. ude cam- 
panulate, an inch long, singularly broad, the very base alone 
contracted, which fits into the narrow limb of the calyx ; slightly 
again contracted at the mouth, and there clothed with yellow 
spreading hairs; the /imé, spreading horizontally, of five large, 
broad, subrotund, acute lobes. S*amens five, linear, sessile, at- 
tached some way down in the tube, so as not to have any por- 
tion exserted. Style also included, inserted in a fleshy dise or 
annulus, club-shaped, gradually passing into the bifid stigma 
whose apices are reflexed. 
Fig. 1. Corolla :—unaé. size. 2. Pistil; a portion of the calyx-limb being re- 
moved. 3. Stamen, front view. 4. Ditto, back view :—magnified. 
