7-11, wide obovate or elliptic, slightly crenulate upwards. Stamens with red 
filaments, usually somewhat paler upwards ; anthers golden yellow, up to 2 in. 
long. Carpels usually 3, rarely 4, ovoid, very densely tomentose with white 
hairs; stigmas laterally compressed, recurved, red. Follicles when ripe 
stellately spreading, oblong, slightly recurved at the tip, up to 2 in. long, 
covered with a dense dirty white or yellowish tomentum. Seeds elliptic- 
globose, about 4 in. long, black, shining. 
Tas. 8742.—Fig. 1, a carpel with stamens, showing insertion ; 2 and 3, anthers; 
4, ripe fruit; 5, seed :—all enlarged except 4, which is of natural size. 
