one and a half to three inches long by one-eighth of an 
inch broad, linear, rigid, spreading, acute but not pungent, 
grooved above, with two channels beneath from the recurved 
margins not meeting the prominent midrib, glabrous above, 
beneath hoary-pubescent, at length glabrous; petiole one 
to three inches long, as broad as the leaflets, channelled 
above and winged with recurved margins like the leaves. 
facemes two to three inches long, stout, erect, dense- 
flowered, shortly peduncled ; peduncle and rachis tomentose. 
Flowers secund, villous, densely packed, very shortly 
pedicelled. Perianth one-third of an inch long, straw- 
coloured, inflated below the middle, limb reflexed with very 
short concave lobes. Ovary villous; gland semicircular ; 
style one inch long, stout, bright red; stigma globose with 
a nearly terminal circular stigmatic surface. uit three- 
quarters of an inch long, gibbously or dimidiately oblong, 
pubescent, very shortly stipitate, subacute.—J. D. H. 
Fig. 1, Flower ; 2, hairs of branch ; 3, perianth-segment; 4, ovary and gland ; 
5, stigma :—all enlarged. 
