4 cm. long ; peduncles slender, softly pubescent ; lower bracts 

 more or less leafy, spathulate-obovate, up to 7 mm. long ; 

 pedicels up to 1*2 cm. long, with two small opposite linear 

 bracteoles above the middle. Calyx pink-coloured, gradually 

 enlarging, broadly top-shaped, glandular-pubescent outside ; 

 tube 1 cm. long, with broadly rounded lobes, the latter rigidly 

 membranous in the fruiting stage and expanding to 25 cm. 

 Corolla purple, 2-2*5 cm. long, glandular and softly pubescent 

 outside; tube up to 1*5 cm. long. Stamens long exserted; 

 filaments glabrous. Ovary hairy in the upper part ; style 

 a little longer than the stamens, slender, glabrous. Fruit 

 truncate, 4-horned, included by the accrescent calyx. — 

 J. Hutchinson. 



Plate 49. — Fig. 1, calyx ; Fig. 2, corolla bud ; Fig. 3, stamen ; Fig. 4, 

 pistil ; Fig. 5, young fruit. 



F.P.S.A., 1922. 



