most pair of leaves, sessile, very hairy, trichotomous. Divi- 
sions short, round, the lowermost about an inch long. There 
are generally three foral leaves, broad-oval, acuminate, 
seven-nerved somewhat villous, very thin and membranous, 
snow-white, with faintly green veins, two or three inches long, 
on slender elongated petioles, inserted laterally into the apex 
of the ovarium. Bracts numerous, large, very hairy, opposite 
or solitary, under each division of the inflorescence, deeply 
divided into 2 or 3 lanceolate, acuminate lobes, half an inch 
long or more. Flowers large, orange-coloured, nearly sessile, 
hairy without. Calyz large, divided into 5 foliaceous, oblong- 
lanceolate, acuminate, entire segments ; within the base there 
are a number of small subulate glands. Tube of the corolla 
greenish, an inch and a half long, a little swelled above the 
middle, nearly three times longer than the calyx. Lumb 
spreading, convex, divided into 5 ovate, cuspidato-acuminate 
lacinie ; throat and upper part of the tube above the anthers 
filled with silky, yellowish, straight hairs. Stamina enclosed. 
Ovarium ovate, with a small bractlet or two at the base. 
Stigma below the anthers, divided into two linear, fleshy 
lobes. Berries dark purple, hairy, as large as a marrow-fat 
pea.’ 
In cultivation it is found to be a stove shrub which requires 
to be potted in loam and rough sandy peat in equal propor- 
tions, and, it being a plant of free growth, plenty of pot-room. 
During summer, water should be given to its roots in abun- 
dance, and it should be syringed over head once or twice a 
nee Few plants enjoy a damp warm atmosphere more than 
is. 
Like other plants it requires a season of rest, and there- 
fore must be kept rather dry during winter, for if allowed to 
continue growing it will ultimately become feeble. It is 
multiplied by cuttings of young wood, treated in the usual 
way. 
The plant, from which the accompanying drawing was 
made, had been presented to the Garden of the Horticultural 
King? en Knight and Perry, Nurserymen in the 
