oblong or oblong-lanceolate or oblanceolate, acute or sub- 

 acute, quite entire, base often unequal- sided, acute and 

 decurrent on the petiole ; midrib beneath stout, rounded, 

 nerves very many, very slender, horizontal, inconspicuous, 

 petiole as thick as a goose-quill, three to six inches long, 

 terete, smooth, slightly thickened towards the base, green. 

 Racemes short, axillary, two to four inches long, drooping, 

 many-flowered ; peduncle short and rachis slender, yellow ; 

 bracts minute ; pedicels very short ; flowers pendulous, 

 three-quarters of an inch long, and nearly as broad across 

 the corolla. Calyx campanulate, green ; lobes orbicular, 

 quite entire. Corolla fleshy, lobes nearly orbicular, con- 

 cave, incurved disk apricot yellow, margins crenulate. 

 Disk (incorrectly figured) closing the mouth of the corolla, 

 broad, fleshy, ten-lobulate, with twenty radiating low 

 ridges, and five hemispheric low fleshy processes projecting 

 from under its margin and alternating with the corolla- 

 lobes. Stamens five, erect, inserted within the disk, 

 filaments very short, fleshy; anthers broadly ovate, con- 

 niving, connective thick, produced into an obtuse point. 

 Ovary minute, ovoid, narrowed into a short style with a 

 minute capitate stigma ; ovules few, inserted in a whorl 

 round the base of the conical placenta. — J. D. H. 



Fig. 1, Flower ; 2, the same with the corolla-lobes cut off (disk incurved in both) ; 

 3 and 4, stamens ; 5, ovary ; 6, vertical section of ditto :— all enlarged. 



