name of Ps. sclerophylla, but that is a very different species, and 
is figured in the ‘ Flore des Serres,’ tom. viil. t. 825. 
Dzscr. An evergreen shrvd, with terete, green branches, tinged 
with red. Leaves about four inches long, glossy-green, shortly 
petioled, elliptical, very entire, much and rather finely acumi- 
nated, subdistichous, the base obtuse, three- to five-nerved, faintly 
reticulated between the almost parallel nerves, dark glossy-green, 
the older ones tinged with brown. Racemes solitary, axillary, 
many-flowered, secund, and drooping. Pedicels thick, clavate, 
eventually red, with two small bracteas. Calya« with its base 
articulated upon the pedicel, scabrous ; twde globose, dimé of five 
broad acute segments. Corolla large, rich scarlet, pitcher-shaped, 
suddenly contracted into a greenish five-lobed apex. Stamens 
ten, included. Ovary incorporated with the calyx-tube: an an- 
nular disc surrounding the base of the filiform s¢y/e, which is a 
little longer than the corolla. Stigma obtuse. 
Fig. 1. Flower. 2, Calyx and pistil. 3. Stamens :—magnified. 
