half broad, pendulous, coriaceous, narrowly linear-lanceolate 
from a rounded or cordate base, narrowed into a very fine 
acuminate point, glabrous above, finely tomentose beneath, 
more villous on the stout midrib and ten to fifteen pairs 
of arching nerves, strongly reticulate between the latter ; 
petiole one-third of an inch long, stout, twisted. Flowers 
solitary or two together from towards the bases of the | 
branches, pedicelled, pendulous, villous with spreading 
hairs externally, as are the stout flexuous pedicels. Ovary 
linear-oblong. Perianth-tube yellowish, faintly streaked 
with red-brown; saccate portion one and a half inches 
long, cylindric-oblong, moderately inflated ; refracted por- 
tion of tube shorter, suddenly dilated into a maroon- 
brown nearly orbicular shallowly two-lobed glabrous limb 
two and a half inches in diameter, and mottled with 
reticulate darker nerves; mouth subquadrate and tube 
within bright yellow, with a few small purple specks. 
Column shortly stipitate, three-lobed ; lobes obtuse, entire, 
fleshy, with recurved crenulate margins. Anthers six, in 
three pairs, cells linear-oblong.—J. D. H. 
Fig. 1, Ovary and column viewed towards the back of one stigmatic lobe; 2, the 
same viewed towards the sinus between the lobes :—both enlarged. 
