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longitudinally 3— winged, S— 11 mm. long. Perianth superior, 

 erect, straight; limb yellow, small, much shorter than the tube, 

 G-lobed or sub-6-lobed or 3-lobed ; external lobes 3, sub- 

 recurvo-erectpatent, induplicato-valvate in bud, broadly ovato- 

 deltoid, obtuse- or acutish-tipped, entire, thicker and very 

 minutely papillose towards the margin, thinner in centre, 

 slightly concave internally, alato-carinate dorsall}*, 1— nerved, 

 about 1% mm. long, l^-lf mm. wide ; interior lobes very 

 minute and depressed, or obscure, or none ; tube straight, 

 shortly cylindrical, abruptly slightly enlarged at the apex 

 which continued to the limb, gradually somewhat enlarged 

 towards the base which is continued to the ovary, membrana- 

 ceous, longitudinally 6-nerved, about 3-3 § mm. long, \\-2 mm. 

 across ; wings shorter than the floral body, membranaceous, 

 entire-margined, cuneate, obliquely subrtuncate and narrowly 

 adnate to the back of the exterior lobes of the limb at the 

 apex, gradually narrowed and decurrent to the pedicel, If— 3 mm. 

 broad. Stamens 3, inserted in a short distance under the 

 throat, opposite to the interior lobes of perianth, slightly 

 lower than the stigmas, sessile ; anther-cells disconnected and 

 remote by a transverse stout connective, transversely ellipsoid, 

 separating the inside into 2 loculaments by a vertical dissepiment, 

 transversely dehiscing ; connective horizontal, thick, somewhat 

 broader than the anther-cells towards the middle, with a small 

 conical process on the upper side, prominent on the middle of the 

 front face and adherent to the style-arms. Style included, erect, 

 springing from the obtuse top of the ovary, stout, terete, smooth, 

 3-nerved, very shortly 3-fid into 3 erect-patent arms at the top ; 

 stigmas 3, terminal, large, 1mm. across, transversely subgloboso- 

 ellipsoid, broadly marginate with a lunato-semiorbiculate dilated 

 appendage externall}", very deeply hollow with a small short and 

 broad lid (which is smaller than dimensions of the mouth) from 

 the inner margin in the elliptical mouth, which open outwards. 

 Ovary inferior, a little longer than the perianth-tube, narrowly 

 3— alate by the decurrence of the wings, oval to oblong-ellipsoid, 

 3— celled with very thinly membranaceous dissepiments, about 

 3—5 mm. long, 2—3 mm. across ; ovules very numerous, minute, 



