five-cleft almost to the middle; lobes ovate, acute, erect. 

 Petals much longer than the calyx, convolute into a tube 

 below, above spreading, obovate-cuneate, retuse, white, reti- 

 culately mottled with bright rose-pink. Staminal column 

 slender, exserted. Stigmas five, capitellate. Ovules nume- 

 rous. — J. I). H. 



Fig. 1. Calyx cut open, involucel, and staminal column -.—magnified. 



