plant not only from MM. lacerum, but from every other 
known member of the genus. The stamens and the 
minute stigmas are completely concealed within the 
dome formed by the closely contiguous incurved filiform 
inner petals. 
Description.— Undershrub, 13-2 ft. high, much branched, glabrous in all its 
parts; branches forked, reddish. Leaves glaucous-green, sharply triquetrous, 
13-1} in. long, }-} in. wide, and 3-2 in. thick, spreading, then slightly incurved, 
the keel often erosely toothed, occasionally entire, the tip acute and slightly 
mucronate. Flowers solitary, terminal, pedicels 4-1 in, long. Calyx 5-lobed, 
greenish glaucous; tube wide obconic, from 3-2 in. across; lobes unequal, 
#-§ in. long, resembling the leaves, three with, the others without, broad 
membranous margins. Corolla 1}-1% in. across; petals of two kinds; the 
outer numerous, 3-seriate, some spreading, others erect or incurved, about 2 in. 
long, long-spathulate with a white filiform claw and a purple elliptic-lanceolate 
blunt blade ¥,-3 in. wide ; the inner also numerous but shorter, white, filiform, 
sharply incurved over the stamens. Stamens numerous, white, incurved over 
the ovary. Ovary broad and depressed with a concave apex, 10-locular ; 
stigmas 10, minute, connivent. 
Tas. 8703.—Fig. 1, section of a flower; 2, an 
outer petal; 3, inner petals 
and stamens; 4, an inner petal :—all enlarged. 
