Empalement. Cup five-parted, pointed, and small.
Blossom one-petal, funnel-shaped; border five-cleft, flat and spreading very much.
Honey-cup five glands, standing round the bud.
Chives. Five threads, slender, erect. Tips stiff, oblong, tapered, and closing together at the top.
Pointal. Seed-buds two. Shaft thread-shaped, the length of the chives. Summit oblong-headed, two-lobed, attached to the tips by a glutinous substance.
Seed-vessel. Two follicles, very long, one celled, one valved.
Seeds many tiled, crowned with a long feather.
SPECIFIC CHARACTER.
Echites pedunculis racemosis; foliis ovalibus, obtusis, mucronatis; floribus luteis, amplissimis; corollæ tubus hirsutus.
Echites with bunched foot-stalks; leaves oval, blunt and pointed at the ends; flowers yellow and very large; the tube of the blossom hairy.