elevated into a marginal ring, within which is situated the 
large six-lobed inferior corona (fig. 2.). Pistils two: Ger- 
men roundish compressed in the inside, tapering into the 
shortish styles, and terminating in the upper, pentagonal, 
deep purple, flat corona; at the margin of which are five 
brown, pendent scales, white at their upper edge: these © 
are the anther-cases; each has two cells, and two linear, 
waxy pollen masses, united in pairs by a small connecting 
point, which is placed between the scales, in the axil, or 
sinus. 
Raised from seeds sent from Mexico to the Rev. J. T. 
Honrtey of Kimbolton, a gentleman, whose collection of 
living plants promises to rank among the most valuable in 
the kingdom for rare and beautiful individuals. The seed- 
vessels, Mr. Hunttey remarks, were larger than an apple : 
but in the stove, where the plant is cultivated, and where it 
bears its numerous singularly-coloured blossoms in the 
month of October, these flowers fall away without produc- 
ing fructification. 
Fig. 1. Single Flower, before the Segments of the Corolla are reflected. 
2. Lower Corona, with the point of attachment in the centre of the upper 
pentagonal Corona, seen at f.3. 4. Pair of Pollen Masses. 5. Pistils. 6. 
Section of the Germen, to shew the situation of the Ovules.—Magnified. 
