soft and fleshy ; papillae in rows, giving a minutely striate 
appearance to the leaf. Peduncles solitary, terminal, one- 
rarely two- or three-flowered, short, cylindric. Flowers two 
and a half inches in diameter. Calyx tube obconic, half an 
inch long ; lobes five, spreading, longer than the tube, three 
of them shorter than the others, semi-terete obtuse or sub- 
acute. Petals of outer series twice as long as the calyx-lobes, 
very narrow, linear, rose-purple ; inner series or staminodes 
one-third shorter, very narrow, suberect and recurved, also 
rose-purple. Stamens densely crowded in the centre of the 
flower, forming a small yellow disk about one quarter of an 
inch in diameter. Stigmas four or five, ovate-lanceolate, 
apiculate, seated on the top of the 5-lobed ovary. — J. B. II. 
Fig. 1, Apex of leaf; 2, vertical section of flower; 3, top of ovary ancl 
stigmas : — cdl magnified. 
