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Inflorescence. — Racemose cymes. 

 Peduncles. — Terminal, long, angular. 

 Pedicels. — Short. 



Bracts. — Linear, deciduous, coloured. 



Estivation — Valvate in the upper part of the calyx-tube ; contorted 

 in the corolla, segments overlapping to the right. 



CALYX. — Inferior, 5 -partite, tubular persistant, slightly accrescent ; 

 segments subulate-lanceolate, erect, says Roxburgh. The base of the 

 calyx-tube glandular within. Professor Vines of Cambridge, apropos of 

 the Nectaries, observes thus : — " Nectaries many, in a whorl as rounded 

 prominences, situated extra-staminally, between the corolla and calyx " 

 ("Text-Book of Botany," pp. 526-527— 1895). 



COROLLA. — 5-lobedj twisted, hypogynous, gamopetalous, regular, 

 deciduous. Appendages of the corolla cleft into 4-7 segments (Hooker) ; 

 Brandis, however, saya "that the corona of each petal is trifid; the 

 lateral segment is linear, and the centre one short, triangular." This is 

 the common arrangement in single flowers, so far as I have observed. In 

 the flesh-coloured flowers, however, the arrangement is somewhat differ- 

 ent, in that the corona is more divided, having five strap-like laciniae, 

 quite entire half-way up, and then uniformly dividing into a filiform 

 fringe. 

 Andrcecium. 



Stamens. — 5, alternate with the lobes of the corolla, and included 

 within the~corolla-tube. 

 Filaments. — Distinctly attached to the tube the whole way down. 

 Anthers. — Sagittate, introrse, united to the stigma, 2-celled, dehiscing 

 longitudinally. " Spurs of the anthers, linear, twice as long as the cells " 

 (Solander). The Connective prolonged into a feathery process more 

 than twice the length of the anthers. These feathery processes, five 

 together, are spirally-twisted into a bundle, which projects well beyond 

 the tube of the corolla ; the individual processes however are easily 

 separable. 



Pollen. — Globose ; immediately applied to the stigma. 

 Gyncecium. 



Ovary. — Superior, composed of two carpels, which are coherent, but 

 easily separable in the fruit. 



Style. — Single, uniting the ovaries. 



