merable small, short, transverse bars of dark purple, lobes 
ovate acuminate, spreading and recurved, densely covered 
with erect, diaphanous, subulate, fleshy processes, tipped with . 
purple; interior of tube smooth. Outer corona depressed, 
expanded, lobulate, with small tubercles between each sta- 
men. Staminal processes erect, conniving, with horizontal 
terminal appendages that are thick and ovoid, flat above and 
convex below; these together form a five-rayed disk in the 
centre of the flower.—J. D. H. 
Fig. 1. Vertical section of tube of corolla, showing the corona and sta- 
minal processes :—magnified. 
