flowered, about twice as long as the petiole, furnished 
with 3 small closely scattered membranous flat-pressed 
linearly subulate bractes placed a little below the joint. 
Flowers about two inches across, greenish white, faintly 
clouded with purple on the outside. Calyx coriaceous, from 
urceolate below, radiately expanded above; tube or urceolus 
very Shallow vividly green on the inside, flat at the bottom 
on the outside, segments 3 of an inch long, cuneately oblong, 
narrow, obtuse, of the same shape and colour as the petals, 
which are three times smaller and of a very tender consist- 
ence: crown two-ranked, twice shorter than the corolla, outer 
rank numerous, close, simple, radii thickish cylindrical 
rather obtuse obliquely truncated from the top inwards, 
vividly green below, variegated with purple and white 
above, inner rank much shorter, simple, radii of the same 
colour as those of the outer rank, several times slenderer 
filiformly clavate upright capitate glandularly frosted at the 
top. Operculum or lid incumbent closely plaited frosted 
pale and greenish, thickly besprinkled with minute purple 
dots: nectary shallow, with a short fleshy thick obsoletely 
toothed partly double partition which is frosted at the inner 
side. Column of fructification a little shorter than the 
calyx; shaft smooth, but little shorter than the petals: 
filaments burnt-brown, divaricate and recurved; anthers 
linearly oblong, blackish; pollen deep yellow. Germen 
roundish, opaquely green, obsoletely three-cornered: styles 
divaricate, purplish black, twice as long as the germen, 
filiformly clavate, channelled inwards: stigmas orbicular, 
pileate or cap-headed, pulvinate or pillowed, cernuous, in» 
tensely green. 
. VOL. V. BB 
