Botanical Magazine 106 - 1880.pdf - hibiscus.org
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point. Scape green, ancipitous, produced from the end of<br />
the neck of the bulb, a foot and a half long. Umbel five- or<br />
six-flowered ; pedicels very short ; spathe-valves ovate-<br />
lanceolate, green at the flowering-time, two or three inches<br />
long. Ovary oblong-trigonous, green, half an inch long;<br />
perianth-tube subcylindrical, greenish-yellow, between two<br />
and three inches long ; segments oblong, cuspidate, perma-<br />
nently ascending and much imbricated, yellow with a<br />
distinct green keel, an inch long. Corona green, half an<br />
inch long, inserted at the throat of the perianth-tube,<br />
furnished with a simple or obscurely toothed deltoid process<br />
between the base of the free portion of each filament;<br />
anthers fulvous, linear-oblong, versatile, under half an inch<br />
long. Style finally much longer than the perianth ; stigma<br />
capitate.•/. 0, Baker.<br />
Fig. 1, Section of flower :•of the natural she.