white hairs. Scales wedge-shaped, apiculate, on the out- 
side covered with long white silky wool, in the inside quite 
smooth. Perianthium silky, with yellow pubescence, tube 
thin, and nearly smooth, limb 4-parted, frequently some- 
what 2-lipped, with reflexed segments bearing the linear 
anthers in their concave ends. Ovary wrapped in very 
dense, very long, silvery-white hairs, which also grow upon 
the base of the style. Stigma fusiform, quite smooth, the 
length of stamens. 
J.L. 
