138 THE PRETTY RAPHISTEM. 
age the rachis lengthens into the form of a short raceme. Flowers very large, pure white, long- 
peduncled. Calyx five-parted, smooth ; corolla five-parted, rotate ; segments oblong, in the bud 
imbricated. ` Nectary sub-cylindric: exterior lamina membranaceous, ensiform, ending in long, fine, 
acute points, which converge over the stigma, their texture horny and polished ; in their retuse tops, 
are the pits where the anthers are lodged. Germs two, style short, common stigma five-angled; to 
the points of the angles the five ovate, hard, polished, chestnut-coloured bodies are attached, which 
give substantial support to the five pairs of large oval anthers, by means of their thick, short, polished, 
‘chestnut-coloured, cyathiform pedicels.— F7. Ind. TI. 55. 
