Botanical Magazine 106 - 1880.pdf - hibiscus.org

produced an inch above its neck. Leaves two or four to a
bulb, narrow linear, glaucescent, about as long as the scape.
Scape slender, terete, a quarter or half a foot long, bearing
a single erect flower on a very short pedicel. Perianth
bright lemon-yellow; tube subcylindrical, greenish, half or
three-quarters of an inch long ; segments oblong, spreading,
cuspidate, half as long as the tube. Corona cup-shaped,
orange-yellow, less than half as long as the perianth-seg-
ments, the throat with three deep rounded dentate lobes.
Anthers all six nearly sessile in the perianth-tube. Style
much shorter than the perianth-tube.•J. G. Baker.
Fig. 1, section of a flower of N. pallidulus ; 2, section of a flower of N.
Graellsii ; 3, section of a flower of N. rupicola :•all enlarged.