slightly tinged with green except at the top where it is flushed with rose, the 
limb red, everywhere glabrous; tube long-urceolate, rather narrowed at the 
mouth, + in. wide about the middle, hardly ;', in. wide at the mouth; lobes 4, 
at first erect, at length reflexed, ovate, obtuse, sometimes finely toothed at the 
tip, about } in. long, 5 in. wide. Stamens 8, rather shorter than the corolla- 
tube, glabrous; filaments very slender, flattened, 4 in. long, white; anthers 
golden yellow, almost ovoid, hardly ;'; in. long; cells slightly cordate at the 
base, opening by a short chink near the subacute tip, each with a lanceolate 
fimbriate basal appendage {5 in. long. Ovary obovoid, depressed at the apex, 
4-lobed, narrowed at the base, with a short thick stipe, } in. long, about z's in. 
wide at the top, barely half as wide at the base, 4-celled; style slightly exserted, 
glabrous, whitish; stigma peltate-capitate, slightly 4-lobed, rose-coloured ; 
ovules numerous, nearly ellipsoid, papillose. 
_. Tas. 8835.—Fig. 1, leaf; 2, flower; 3 and 4, stamens; 5, pistil ; 6, transverse 
section of ovary :—all enlarged. 
