point, membranous, as long as the pedicels. Pedicels l'l- 

 2*5 cm. long, terete. Perianth-segments free to the base, 

 spreading, 1 '2 cm. long, 4 mm. broad, oblong-lanceolate, dark 

 purple with white margins, 5-nerved ; the outer cucullate at 

 the apex with a fringe of short glandular hairs ; the inner 

 rounded and fringed with short glandular hairs. Filaments 

 8 mm. long, 1 - 5 mm. broad in widest part, lanceolate, acumi- 

 nate, more or less compressed below, convex on both sides 

 above ; anthers 4 mm. long, oblong, each lobe with a short 

 beak. Ovary 5 mm. long, 2*5 mm. in diameter, 3-lobed, 

 glabrous ; style 6 mm. long, semiterete ; the style in open 

 flowers bent away from stamens and later becoming sharply 

 bent ; stigma semiglobose, covered with glandular hairs. 



Plate 75. — Pig. 1, flower ; Fig. 2, bract ; Fig. 3, stamen ; Fig. 4, cross- 

 section of ovary ; Fig. 5, gynaecium ; Fig. 6, outer perianth-segments, front 

 and side views ; Fig. 7, inner perianth-segments, front and side views. 



F.P.S.A., 1922. 



