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green and inconspicuously punctulate with sparse minute fuscous 

 dots beneath, 5J-10|"cm. long, If -4} cm, broad ; midrib prom-. 



inent on both sides, 

 light green ; veins and 

 main veinlets impress- 

 ed above in recent ; 

 petiole glabrous, sub- 

 terete, somewhat flat 

 in front, green, 6-14 



mm. long. Flowers 

 terminal, solitary or 

 geminate, about 5 cm. 

 long, 4—5 cm. in di- 

 ameter, rose-purple. 

 Sepals imbricated, col- 

 lectively campanulate, 

 green but the inner 

 ones coloured and 

 petaloid, adpressedly 

 sericeo-pubescent ex- 

 ternally, concave, de- 

 ciduous ; outer ones 

 smaller, coriaceous, 

 semiorbicular ; middle 

 ones orbicular ; inner 

 ones larger, obovate, 

 emarginate, thinly 



membranaceous and ciliated on margin, the innermost one 

 attaining about 3 cm. long. Corolla tubuloso-campanulate or 

 campanulato-infundibuliform, 5-6-petaled, connate into a short 

 tube at the base, deciduous; segments erect or erect-patent, 

 obovately oval or orbiculated, emarginate, the outer ones slight- 

 ly shorter. Monadelphous stamens short, erect, adherent to 

 the corolla-tube at the base, white, the free portion of filaments 

 decipient bearing imperfect anthers. Style erect, gracile, gla- 

 brous, exceeding the stamens in height, light purple below but 

 greenish towards the top r very shortly 3-fi.d with shortly bifid 



Fig. V. 



