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Corolla yellow, tubular, thick, narrow-throated, basal part 

 swollen, 12 mm. long; segments 4-5, rotate, pubescent 

 beneath, broadly ovate, sub-acute apex. 



Stamens indefinite, or about 16, terminating receptacle, 

 3 mm. long; anthers yellowish-brown, nearly sessile, 

 attenuate and pubescent apex ; filaments white, short, gla- 

 brous ; pollen thin-walled, yellowish- white, feebly granular 

 contents. 



Pistil absent or rudimentary. 



Female flowers. My first fresh material was obtained 

 through the kindness of F. Lewis, Esq., from Nahiti- 

 mukalana, Atakalan kbrale, 1,800 feet above sea level. 



Flowers solitary, pedunculate in axil of foliage leaf, or on 

 lower part of young shoots in axil of caducous bracts ; in 

 bud 5 mm. long, 8 mm. diameter, resembling in appearance 

 those of P. Melanoxylon. Open flower measures 20 mm. 

 long, average diameter 3 mm. The peduncle is green, 

 pubescent, measures 20 mm. in length, and bears two small 

 caducous bracts at right angles to antero-posterior axis. (See 

 pi. VI., fig. 5.) 



Calyx brown, covered with dense layer of velvety hairs ; 

 segments 5, acute apex; when young, margin slightly 

 recurved, but later very wide intersegmental grooves are 

 formed. These pouches are at first nearly horizontal, but 

 subsequently widen and become strongly reflexed, the apices 

 of the segments remaining erect and in contact with corolla. 



Corolla yellowish- white, pubescent, 15 mm. long, 12 mm. 

 diameter ; segments 5, obtuse or rounded apex, recurved in 

 old flowers, 5 mm. long, 5 mm. wide at base. 



Staminodes 5, epipetalous, alternate with corolla lobes and 

 2 mm. in length, occasionally smaller epipetalous altern- 

 ating structures occur, probably rudimentary or abortive 

 staminodes ; anthers barren, yellowish-brown, bluntly apicu- 

 late ; filaments white, short, glabrous. 



Pistil green, pubescent, 6 mm. long, 5 mm. diameter: 

 stigmas 5, green, short, undulating apices ; ovary 10-celled. 



