them, bracteated, dracteas lanceolate, very much acuminated, 
rose-coloured, farinose, spinuloso-serrated at the margin. Flowers 
arranged in a capitate ¢yrsus, clothed with numerous imbricating 
rose-coloured bracteas, resembling those of the scape, concealing 
the flowers till they are nearly expanded. Calyw-tube oval, in- 
corporated with the ovary, yellowish, downy ; /imdé of three, rose- 
coloured, erect, ovate, downy, blunt segments. Corolla of three, 
linear-oblong or spathulate, erect, slightly convolute, very obtuse ; 
petals vose-colour in bud, when perfect white, gradually passing 
into blue at the tips, the margin here and there with a subulate 
slender tooth. Sca/es at the base of the petals oblong, fringed 
at the apex. Stamens shorter than the petals. Anthers linear, 
acute. Style a little shorter than the stamens: stigma trifid, seg- 
ments cuneate. 
Fig. 1. Flower. 2. Petal, stamens, and scales. 3. Pistil :—magnified. 
