green, stipulaceous; then much larger and white, their margins towards the bottom coalescing with 
t sal rib of the next above them into a little sack which contains the flowers, upper ones gra- 
dually sterile and rose-coloured ; 
white, confluent with the filament, erect ; its midrib broad, externally hollow, and pubescent ; ter- 
minating in an orange-coloured retuse smooth callosity ; cells 2, marginal, very prominent, their base 
long awled point which collects moisture irom the atm phere so copiously that it soon decays, 
their upper surface smooth with projecting nerves, under surtace pubescent. 
_ REFERENCES TO THE PLATE. 
1. A front view of 2 Flowers. 2, Back view of a single Flower. 3. Top of the larger division of 
the outer Limb highly magnified to shew its hood. 4. A side view of the Stamen and Style in 
their natural situation. 5. Front and back view of the Stamen’ only, 6. Pistillum and Nec« 
taries highly magnified. 7. Transverse section of a Young Fruit. \ 
