richer and handsomer appearance than the one now figured, 

 of which roots were sent from the Organ Mountains of 

 Brazil to Messrs. Veitch of the Mount Radford Nursery, 

 Exeter, by their Collector, Mr. Lobb. The plants produc- 

 ed their rich and copiously flowered panicles in August 

 (1842), and from the first that blossomed the present draw- 

 ing was made. The same species I find in Mr. Gardners 

 rich Brazilian Collections from the same locality, marked 

 No. 467 of his distributed plants : but my specimen bears 

 the remark, " I found only a single plant of this species, 

 growing on a rock, by the side of a small stream, far in a 

 virgin forest, February, 1837." It is a tall growing species, 

 and one of the leaves, exclusive of the petiole, is a foot 

 long, and nine inches broad. 



Descr. The entire plant I have not seen, but it would 

 appear to attain a height of some feet, with opposite, large, 

 cordato-ovate, rather membranaceous leaves, with a rather 

 deep sinus at the base, the apex rather obtuse, the margin 

 irregularly crenate, the surface on both sides pubescent 

 with numerous short hairs. The panicle is terminal, large, 

 much branched, tinged with purple, glabrous, especially 

 the secondary branches and pedicels, which latter are often 

 aggregate ; at the setting on of the branches and pedicels 

 are small, subulate bracts. Flowers drooping. Calyx gla- 

 brous ; the tube almost wholly adnate with the base of the 

 germen, the limb of five moderately spreading, ovate, acute 

 lobes, tipped with red. Corolla two inches long, rich scar- 

 let, the mouth with yellow rays, glabrous ; the tube curved, 

 gradually enlarging upwards : the limb of five, spreading, 

 nearly equal, rounded lobes. The free part of the germen 

 is oblongo-ovate, a little constricted above the middle; it 

 tapers into a style the length of the tube of the corolla. 

 Hypogynous glands, two approximate, large in proportion 

 to the size of the germen. 



Fig. 1. Pistil and Hypogynous Glands :— magnified. 



