beyond, and tni^a % a crown. E. lonyiforum blossoms with us in 

 June and continues for some weeks in beauty. 



Descr. A low shrub, in our stove about a foot and a half 

 high, much branched ; the branches opposite, ultimate ones short 

 and subcorymbose. Leaves lanceolate, sharply acuminated, en- 

 tire, tapering into a very short footstalk at the base, penninerved, 

 of a texture between coriaceous and membranaceous. Stipules 

 broadly ovate, acuminate, appressed. Peduncles axillary and ter- 

 minal, short, often clustered or subcorymbose, bracteated. Calyx- 

 tube purple, oblong, tapering at the base, glabrous j teeth or 

 segments equal in length to the tube, erect, linear-subulate. 

 Corolla with a very long slender tube nearly a span in length, 

 cylindrical, slightly widening upwards and suddenly expanding 

 into the five segments of the limb, which are one-third as long as 

 the tube, linear, obtuse, soon reflexed. The corolla, green in the 

 bud, is pure white on first expanding, at length drooping and 

 changing to red. Stamens placed at the mouth of the tube and 

 wholly exserted ; about as long at the limb. Filaments flat, slightly 

 dilated upwards, when they are broader than the very narrow 

 linear anthers. 



