Descr. A large bush or small tree, with graceful pendu- 

 lous leafy branches ; branchlets cylindrical, pubescent. Leaves 

 alternate, shortly petioled, lanceolate or oblong-lanceolate, 

 quite entire, acuminate, three to four inches long, pubescent, 

 pilose on the nerves beneath, deep-green, membranous, 

 rounded acute or obscurely cordate at the base. Flower in 

 dense pendulous, thyreoid, compound racemes, one inch long, 

 purplish-red, shortly petioled. Calyx short, tube turbinate, 

 green ; lobes broadly triangular-ovate, acuminate, erect. 

 Corolla tubular, gradually inflated, then contracted below 

 the mouth, glabrous ; limb short, with five spreading trian- 

 gular acute lobes ; mouth and inner surface glabrous. Sta- 

 mens inserted two-thirds of the way down the tube ; filaments 

 filiform ; anthers included, small, yellow. Ovary globose ; 

 style slender; stigma capitate, truncate, included. Berry 

 globose, half to three-quarters of an inch in diameter, fleshy, 

 deep red-purple, two-celled, many-seeded. — J. 1). H. 



Fig. 1. Flower. 2. Vertical section of corolla. 3. Pistil. 4. Transverse 

 section of fruit : — all hut Fir/. 4, magnified. 



