crenatures, finely reticulate beneath, base rounded or acute, 

 nerves six to eight pair, slender ; petiole one-half to three- 

 quarters of an inch, terete. Flowers large, pendulous, in 

 sessile axillary branched many-fld. cymes ; branches and 

 pedicels very slender, green, bracts minute. Calyx of four 

 free or connate, elliptic, membranous, three-nerved, subacute, 

 pale green, punctate, sepals one-half to three-quarters of an 

 inch long. Corolla two inches long, between funnel- and 

 bell-shaped, pale yellowish or faintly greenish white, tube 

 curved terete, lobes broadly oblong. Stamens two, inserted 

 about the middle of the tube, filaments exserted for half 

 their length ; anthers small, bright-yellow ; staminodes 

 between the stamens short, filiform. Ovary deeply four- 

 lobed, seated on a broad fleshy disk ; style filiform, stigma 

 minute. — J. D. H. 



Fig. 1, Portion of leaf ; 2, section of calyx and ovary ; 3, corolla-tube laid open, 

 with »tamena and staminodes; 4, anthers; 5, upper part of style and stigma: — 

 all enlarged. 



