with a few empty membranous scales; stipular bracts 2-4, 
concave, semi-translucent, pale yellowish-green, orbicular, 
2 in. in diameter, glabrous outside, ciliate, silky within ; 
floral bracts similar in colour and shape but smaller and 
hairy on both sides. Calyx greenish-yellow, hairy, with 
5 ciliate rounded lobes about one-third the depth of the 
tube. Petals 5, primrose-yellow, spathulate orbicular, } in. 
wide, narrowed to a claw about 34 in. long. Stamens 5, 
the red-brown anthers distinctly exserted. Nectaries 5, 
sharply 2-dentate, somewhat longer than the calyx-lobes. 
Capsule not seen. 
Fig. 1, flower and bracts; 2, petal; 3, stamens and pistil; 4, staminode ; 
5, stamen; 6, vertical section of pistil:—all enlarged. 
