with a narrow sinus, palmately five-nerved, minutely 

 pubescent above; lobes variable in length, crenate-toothed, 

 obtuse or sub-acute; stipules small, narrow, tomentose, 

 caducous; petiole half an inch to two inclies long. Flowers 

 axillary, solitary or rarely binate, three inches in diameter ; 

 pedicel one and a half to two inches long, slender, In- 

 volucel three-lobed or -partite, segments ovate, acute, 

 shorter than the five-lobed calyx. Petals broadly spathu- 

 lately obovate, tips rounded, retuse, variable in colour, pale 

 violet or rose-coloured, with crimson base and claw. 

 Ovary twelve- to sixteen-celled ; styles slender, stigmas 

 filiform. Capsule orbicular, depressed, of twelve to sixteen 

 thin coriaceous cocci, surrounding a central axis Avhich is 

 dilated at the top into a free, broad, deeply furrowed, 

 peltate cone. — /. I). IL 



Figs. 1 aad 2, antliera ; 3, pistil and disk : — all enlarged. 



