lanceolate-deltoid, about as long as the pedicels. Perianth 
manye-pink, rotate when fully expanded ; segments ovate- 
lanceolate, acute, five or six lines long. Stamens rather 
shorter than the perianth- segments ; filaments all alike, subu- 
late ; anthers small, oblong. Ovary depresso-globose, deeply 
three-lobed. Style a quarter of an inch long ; ovules two in 
each cell, basal, collateral, erect. — J. G. Baker . 
Fig. 1, An open flower, natural size ; 2, a single stamen ; 3, the pistil : 4, ver- 
tical section of ovary : — all three magnified. 
