long, 7 mm. broad, cylindric, densely villous on the back with 

 long white hairs. Perianth-tube 1 cm. long, glabrous ; seg- 

 ments 2*5 cm. long, linear, villous and long ciliate ; lobes 

 3 mm. long, oblong, subacuminate, ciliate and bearded. 

 Ovary 1 mm. long, villous ; style 4*5 cm. long, terete, 

 glabrous ; stigma ovoid, subacuminate, obtuse. 



Plate 74. — Fig. 1, a single flower ; Pig. 2, flower bud ; Pig. 3, limb of 

 posticous segment ; Pig. 4, one lobe of limb snowing stamen ; Pig. 5, floral 

 bracts ; Pig. 6, longitudinal section of receptacle ; Pig. 7, involucral bract ; 

 Pig. 8, stigma, side view ; Pig. 9, stigma, front view. 



P.P.S.A., 1922. 



