the green corolla, having its limb spotted with dark purple or 
blood-colour, and its ciliated or fringed margin. It has recent 
been introduced to our own stoves by Mr. Veitch, through his 
collector, Mr. Thomas Lobb, from Java. It inhabits the moun- 
tains. It is a free and abundant flowerer, and blossoms in 
March, and loves heat and moisture. 
Descr. Straggling shrub, everywhere glabrous, branched. 
Branches rounded, greenish. Leaves opposite, distichous, on 
short thick petioles, oblong-lanceolate, thick and fleshy, almost 
coriaceous, obtuse at the base, acuminated at the point, the 
margin sinuato-dentate, the colour dark green above, paler below, 
where it is sometimes tinged (but not spotted) with purple, and 
having a very prominent dark purple costa. Pedicels short, 
clustered, axillary, single-flowered, with very minute subulate 
bracteas at the base. Calyx with the tube, short, green, the 
segments very long, subulate, dark purple, as long as the tube of 
the corolla. Corolla green, the tube infundibuliform, a little 
curved, the mouth very oblique, the limb of five rounded, spread- 
ing segments, spotted with blood-colour and ciliated. Stamens 
four, didynamous (with a fifth small abortive one), much exserted, 
curved. Filaments hairy above. Anthers oblong. Ovary seated 
on a fleshy disk, linear, glabrous. Sfyle long, hairy. Stigma 
depressed, obscurely two-lobed. 
Fig. 1. Flower. 2. Corolla laid open, 3. Pistil. 4. Ovary cut through 
transversely :—magnified. 
