floccose, bracteated by three or four reduced linear leaves. 
Raceme lax, simple, about a foot long and half a foot 
broad when fully expanded; most of the pedicels patent, 
the lower ones half or three-quarters of an inch long ; 
bracts lanceolate, a quarter or half an inch long. Calyx- 
tube obconical, a quarter of an inch long, adnate to the 
ovary; segments lanceolate, naked, coriaceous, yellowish, 
three-quarters of an inch long. Petals primrose-yellow, 
lingulate, obtuse, two inches long, with a toothed oblong 
scale at the base. Stamens and style about as long as 
the petals ; anthers lemon-yellow, linear, basifixed, nearly 
half an inch long. Stigmas strongly twisted spirally. — J. G. 
Baker. 
Fig. 1, Petals, shewing the scale at the base, and a couple of stamens ; fig. 
2, pistil : — both slightly magnified. 
