erect, and only expanded when the sun shines. Peduncles pale red, much thicker than the 
petioles but nearly the same length, reclined, round, very pubescent. Bractes greenish red, 
near the calyx and generally opposite to each other. Calyx marked near the top with two rows 
of glands, obtuse. Petals about 7 lines long: Claw pale yellow and shining: Limb in the part 
which is exposed while rolled up of a dirty pink 
veins, obovate, a little oblique, smooth. Filaments white, shining, the 5 shorter about as long 
as the calyx, the 5 others almost twice as long and without teeth. Anthers roundish. Styles 
white, shorter than the lower filaments, spreading, round, smooth. Stigma pale green, hemis- 
pherical and projecting between the filaments. 
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REFERENCES TO THE PLATE. 
1. A leaf of the Calyx magnified. 
2. The Genitalia magnified. 
3. The bottom of a Petiole magnified. 
4. Two views of an Anther magnified. 
5. A single Petal. 
6. The young Fruit cut open and magnified. 
