thick, short, nearly round, involutely channelled, subarti- 

 culately fixed to a projecting ring of the same colour as the 

 bark and deriving from thence the appearance of stemclasp- 

 ing. Panicle partly leafy, partly foliaceously bracteate, 

 with the flowers in opposite pairs: peduncles thick, very 

 short or nearly obsolete, generally two-flowered, axillary 

 in the leaves, which gradually decrease to mere bractes; 

 pedicles longish, one-flowered, stiff, ascending round, ro- 

 bust. Calyx semisuperior, herbaceous, twice or thrice 

 shorter than the corolla, furred; leaflets lanceolate acumi- 

 nate equal. Corolla green, black-dotted, about If inch 

 long or more, subbilabiately-fupnelform, with a closely 

 villous nap on the outside; tube cylindric, about the length 

 of the faux, protuberant round the base; Jaux campanulate, 

 inflated underneath; limb slanting, short, revolute, nearly 

 equal, segments almost round, filaments smooth, the ru- 

 diment of the fifth scariose membranous subulate very short : 

 anthers cruciately coadunate (united into the form of a 

 cross): pollen cream-coloured. Germen oblong, pyramidal, 



rostrate (beaked), bluntly 3 -cornered, scored, velvetly fur- 

 red, thickly rostrate and green above, pale below, sur- 

 rounded at the base by a shallow glandular yellowish 5- 

 toothed crown, the teeth ovate equal obtuse separated at the 

 base by 5 brownish caruncles or calli. When the flowers 

 are open we perceive a limpid drop standing at the back just 

 below the point of each tooth, and issuing from a fine pore- 

 like perforation in the same place. Style continuous with 

 the beak of the germen. 



We have observed fine plants of this species in the hot- 

 house at the nursery of Messrs. Colville, in the King's Road; 

 but which have not yet flowered. 



