Botanical Magazine 106 - 1880.pdf - hibiscus.org

thin in texture, dark green, much undulated towards the
edges. Scape slender, subterete, tinted with purple, under
a foot long, produced from the axis of one of the outer
leaves of the rosette. Umbel sessile, six- to ten-flowered ;
spathe-valves small, deltoid. Flowers rotate, faintly
scented, white, tinted on the outside with purple, erect in
bud. Perianth tube slender, five or six inches long ; limb
about half as long as the tube, the oblanceolate acute
recurving segments a third or half an inch broad three-
quarters of the way up. 'Stamens arcuate, distinctly shorter
than the perianth-limb ; filaments bright red ; anthers
linear, half an inch long. Style overtopping the stamens,
bright red ; stigma minute, capitate.•J. G. Baker.