THE STRUCTURE OF CERTAIN NEW HYBRIDS, tes 
rich red or purplish-brown, the colours graduating at mid-length into 
mottled mauve-purple ; the tips white, capitate. The rays have a spread 
of 25 to8in. In bud they are found bent under the petals, and their 
colour is present at a comparatively early stage of their development. 
The. capitate tips are beset with papillae, which may be regarded as 
glandular. It is easy to demonstrate that the odour of the flower has its 
seat in the rays, for when they are cut off the scent disappears. 
The corresponding rays of C. (fig. 64, a) are in whorls of a similar 
character. When fully expanded they lie straight at a right angle to the 
axis of the flower, or the outer ones a few degrees beyond that angle. 
The expanse of the rays is a little over2in. The rays are } in. long; the 
outer whorl seventy to eighty, and the inner sixty to seventy in number. 
The base is white, and immediately above it is a band, % to ;°; in. deep, 
of rich purple brown, shading upwards into purple, followed suddenly by 
a white ring } in. deep, which merges into a mottled purplish-blue. 
The apex is white, non-capitate, and destitute of glandular papille. 
In M.W. the corresponding rays (fig. 63, a) are in two whorls, 
expanding well out (8} to 3} in.). They are about ninety in number, 
the outer whorl having about five more than the inner. The largest 
numbers met with were 50+45=95. The length of the inner rays is 
12 in., the outer rays 15 in. The basal } in. is deep purplish-brown, 
shading quickly into a band of pure white } in. deep; beyond this is a 
narrow band of dark greyish-blue, then a very narrow band of pure 
white, followed by a dark mauve-purple band (,!) in. deep), which shades 
into a lighter tint, and that colour extends throughout the distal half 
of the rays. The tips are white and beset with papille, which are 
much less conspicuous than those of B., and are often absent in the 
outer whorl. 
The second faucial series of coronal appendages of B. (fig. 62, b) 
consists of (1) anirregular whorl of white, red-tipped, short projections 
close to the base of the inner whorl of long rays; (2) a more regular 
whorl of similar projections ; and (3) a whorl of appendages, + in. long, 
occasionally occurring as single filaments, but more commonly united 
in their basal halves into small groups, bearing three to four concentric 
bands of red, and tipped with brown purple. 
In C. this series of organs consists (fig. 64, b) of a circle of short thin 
rays, with very dark-coloured tips. A few black-tipped protuberances are 
found irregularly distributed in the region between the circle just de- 
scribed and the bases of the long rays. 
In M.W. the corresponding series comprises (fig. 63, b) a distinct 
circle of very deep brown-purple rays } in. long, almost straight, or 
slightly curved outwards; and, external to these, numerous alternately 
disposed, mostly shorter, dark-coloured protuberances, situated close to 
the base of the inner long rays and lying parallel with them. Occasionally 
some of the protuberances described may be found so far displaced 
inwards as to give the appearance of a double whorl of short rays when 
seen in a section of the flower. 
The inner or median series in B. is represented (fig. 62, c) by a flat 
white membranous canopy completely covering in the nectary. The free 
inner red-dotted edge curves upwards close to the gonophore. 
