5-nerved, glabrous. Pedicels 6 mm. long, 4 mm. broad, fleshy. 

 Perianth-tube 7 mm. long, 6 mm. in diameter at the throat ; 

 lobes 1"2 mm. long, 4 mm. broad, oblong, minutely tufted 

 at the apex, membranous. Filaments inserted at mouth of 

 perianth-tube, 1*4 cm. long, ovate and connate at the base, 

 becoming linear above ; anthers 3 mm. long, linear, versatile. 

 Ovary 5 mm. long, 7 mm. in diameter above, obovoid; style 

 2 cm. long, subterete ; stigma simple. 



Plate 46. — Fig. 1, plant viewed from eye-level ; Pig. 2, bract with flower ; 

 Fig. 3, section of flower ; Fig. 4, flower, showing the filaments connate at the 

 base ; Fig. 5, apex of perianth lobe ; Fig. 6, bract ; Fig. 7, plant viewed 

 from above. All enlarged with the exception of Figs. 1 and 7. 



F.P.S.A., 1922. 



