size position and inflection, first patent, then reflex; the 
former greenish without, pale within; the latter uniformly 
white. Crown variegated in circles of white and violet; 
outer rays filiform, subulate, slender, in a double some- 
what alternately unequal series, nearly even with the co- 
rolla, patent; immer rays much shorter, erect, promiscu- 
ously crowded, capitate, forming a convex umbellike disk 
in the flower, an appearance which we are not aware they 
assume in any other species; zmost rays of the same shape 
but taller than the inner, in one rank and inclined to- 
wards the column which they surround and mask, standing 
immediately upon the operculum or small ruffle that lies over 
the nectary, a feature which constitutes a second anomaly 
in the genus. Germen elliptic, smooth. Shaft of thie 
column, filaments, style, and stigmas spotted. Anthers 
‘yellow. — Sas ; 
‘The drawing was made in the beginning of last autumn, 
_ from a plant which flowered in the collection of Comtesse 
_de Vandes, Bayswater, The specimen was too far decayed 
-after Mr. Edwards had finished the design, for us to take 
the description of the flower, and we have relied chiefly on 
‘the drawing in what we have said. . 4 
Aublet, by whom the species was first recorded, found it 
growing naturally in Cayenne, but did not see the blossom. 
Introduced in 1779 by Messrs, Lee and Kennedy, of the 
_Hammersmith nursery. 
a Outer double rank of rays. 6 Inner multiplied rays. c Inmost single 
rank, stationed on the operculum and surrounding the shaft of the column, 
d The fleshy elevated pediment of the column. e The nectary, 
