5-lobed, the lobes suborbicular, } in. wide, sparingly 
ciliolate, outside white-glandular. Corolla white, 2} in. 
across, red-dotted within the tube behind: tube wide 
funnel-shaped, 1-1} in. long, glabrous outside, softly 
pubescent in the lower portion within ; lobes 5, spreading, 
deeply emarginate, 3 in. long, 3-1 in. wide. Stamens 10, 
shortly exserted ; filaments about 1 in. long, pilose low 
down with white spreading hairs; anthers conspicuous, 
about { in. long, carmine. Ovary surrounded at the base 
by a shallow fleshy glabrous disk, 5-locular, ovoid, about 
« in. long, green, densely lepidote; style exserted, 1-1} 
in. long, glabrous; stigma capitate, ;4, in. across. Fruit 
supported on a slender pedicel 4—} in; long, narrow- 
ellipsoid, } in. long, ? in. across, lepidote, tipped at first 
by the hardened style, but at length beakless; endocarp 
crustaceous. 
Fig. 1, upper half of a leaf showing the mucronate apex and the glandular 
scales on the lower surface; 2, scales; 3, calyx and pistil; 4, section of calyx 
and the ovary; 5 and 6, stamens; 7, transverse section of ovary :—ail enlarged. 
