glandular-hairy, many-flowered, spreading. owers one and 
a quarter to one and a half inches in diameter. Calyx sub- 
spherical, densely hairy, divided three-fourths of the way 
down into twelve oblong acuminate green segments. Petals 
spreading, narrow linear, acuminate, white, with a broad, 
bright red-purple median band. Stamens all perfect ; 
anthers dull green before bursting. Hypogynous glands 
very small, glandular. Carpels erect, equalling the stamens, 
raised on a lobed disk considerably within the staminal whorl, 
green; styles subulate, slightly recurved.—J. D. H. 
Fig. 1, Leaf; 2, calyx and carpels; 3, carpels and hypogynous glands :— 
all magnified, 
