ated. Down rich brown, sessile, far longer than the pericarpium, minutely bristled. Corolla white, 
from 5% to 6 lines long, split on one side from above the middle; its top 5-toothed, externally o ofa 
e soot colour and rough, elsewhere smooth, before it expands 5-angular and truncated in the 
outer florets somewhat obliquely. Filaments white, attached to the tube a little below its orifice, 
arched. Anthers dull biown. Pollen yellow, but not so abundant as in many syngenesious plants. 
Style attenuated towards the base, below the anthers white and smooth, above them greenish but 
ckly beset with minute black bristles. Stigmata revolute, externally bearded like the style, in- 
ternally of a pee tcl green, 
This species is hardy, ripens seeds pretty freely in the open air, and was communicated by Messrs, 
Napier and CHANDLER, 
REFERENCES TO THE PLATE, 
1, Asingle Flower. 2. A ripe Fruit. 3. The Receptacle, 
