This is not C - pellocarpous if it as acc to B.T.J.B. This differs accce since calyx is not deciduous, style not simple, red not suspended. Duff. Terminal raceme 2 1/4 in., lower pedicels 1/2 in., upper ones much shorter & almost sessile. Peduncle & pedicels brittle, brown pubescent. Pedicel bracted at base with 1 to 3 bracts above according to length. Bracts deciduous (easily) lanceolate, acuminate, brown, with long brown hairs down center inside, and wooly brown ciliate to - wards base the hairs twisted (84x) so they look varying diameter. Bracts 6-7 mm. In it. no definite div bet pedicel & hyppathem or calyx tube. Calyx reddish more or less brown wooly on edge ereect then when they fall. lobes 5 acute, 4-5 mm long. The calyx is the lobes about 2 mm. Tube deciduous with anther & all together stamens. Petals 5 white or with traces of pink, obovate, 7mm x 7-8 mm at the very blunt apex, brown reclined when they fall. Calyx X Stamens 17-20 attached to calyx tube & deciduous with it. Filamentum- equal, red when they fall but white at anthesis. Style 9mm, 2 parted to within 2 mm, calcant to base, stigmas capitate projects as far as stamens. Ovary in closed hyppathem 2-celled ovules 2 in each cell, ovary cavity when ovules removed only a little wider than hyppathem walls. Style persistent when the other parts fall but in ripe fr. is repre- sented only by its base. Fr. 1/4 in diam, globose with flattened apex bearing remnant of style. Dark colored. Walls thin, seed 1 ascending with seed divides vertically down middle into 2 lobes & per.