into the stout petiole, subacute, deep bright-green above, 
paler below. Cymes terminal, subumbelled, about as long as 
the leaves, many-flowered ; peduncles and pedicels stout, 
erect, green, with red semilunar scars left by the fall of the 
bracts and bracteoles. Flowers very sweet-scented. Calyx 
green, fube urceolate, with. five short transversely oblong 
truncate crenate puberulous lobes. Corolla four inches dia- 
meter; lobes broadly oblong, obtuse, thrice as long as the 
rather slender slightly curved tube, very pale pink with a 
broad pale golden yellow base; tube hairy within. Stamens 
small, in the bottom of the tube; anthers subacute. Style 
very short, with a cup-shaped apex, on which are the two 
short stigmas. Follicles described and figured by Ruiz and 
Pavon as being as long as the hand.—/. D. 7. 
Fic. 1. Tube of corolla laid open; 2. stamen; 3. calyx; 4. ovaries, style, 
and stigma; 5. transverse section of ovary :—all magnified. 
