nerves with snow-white cottony tomentum; lobes serrate. 
Stipules semiorbicular, coriaceous, convex, acutely toothed, 
with a spinous process at the base. Peduncles solitary, stout, 
one-flowered, shorter than the petioles. Bracts connate into 
a three-lobed tube one inch long, covered as well as the 
calyx-tube with white down, the veins conspicuous and green. 
Calyx-tube three inches long by half an inch in diameter, 
cylindric, lobes an inch and a half long, oblong, rounded 
at the point, pink, with a green midrib at the back, which is 
produced into a sharp point. Pefals similar to the calyx- 
lobes. Corona of three short series, outer an irregularly 
lobed ring, intermediate an almost entire ring, inner tubular, 
embracing the base of the stamens, crenulate. Ovary vil- 
lous.— J. D. Hf. 
Fig. 1. Portion of calyx, showing the outer and middle coronas :—magnified. 
