the name of Th. pukherrima, a name it well deserves. 1 
find among some of Dr. Griffitli’s VaccinietB in my possession, 
what I believe to be the same species, also gathered at Khasiya: 
but owing to the absence of corollas some doubt must still remain. 
It is quite difierent from any Indian species of Thihaudia (or 
Agapetes) yet described. “ Planted against one of the walls of 
our Camellia House (which in winter is frequently within a 
degree of the freezing point) ” obser\'e Messrs. Lucombe and 
Pince, “ in a border composed of peat, loam, and sand, w^hich 
being very weU drained admits of copious w^aterings during the 
growing or summer season, it thrives remarkably well, making 
vigorous shoots from three to four feet long in a year. The 
copious flowers appear on the hco year old tcood, and first began 
to develope themselves at Christmas, expanding early in April, 
and they still continue to expand, many at a time, in succession. 
It must then be considered a hardy Greenhouse plant, and I 
consider the best way to cultivate it, is to plant it out in the 
border of a Conservatory, where it will soon become a noble and 
interesting object.” 
Descr. a rather lofty shrub, wuth long vigorous branches, 
bearing the leaves mostly at the extremity of the branches, that 
is to say, the leaves faU off* as the branches are prolonged: 
branches, like every part of the plant, glabrous, pale-browm ; on 
the young ones are small subulate scales (they cannot be referred 
to stipules) which, falling off, leave a tuberculated scar on the 
older branches. Leaves alternate, crowded at the extremity of 
the branches, 6-8 inches long, broadly lanceolate, nearly sessile, 
subcoriaceous, dark green, penninerved, acuminated, subserrate 
towards the point or even half way down, the under side is pale 
and more reticulated. The flowers appear from the older (not less 
than two year old) wood, from the axils of the fallen leaves, in 
uni-lateral or sessile pendent umbels. Peduncles enlarged 
upwards, red. Ovary turbinate, jointed on the petiole. Calyx- 
tube short, ovato-lanceolate, appressed. Corolla, in the state of 
bud, almost fusiform, with five deep angles: when expanded 
the tube (thrice as long as the calyx) is between cylindrical and 
campanulate, five-angled; the limb of five rather short, acumi¬ 
nate, reflexed segments: the colour of the corolla is pale red 
(sometimes verging to yellow-green), beautifully, both longitudi¬ 
nally and transversely, marked with lines of deeper red. Stamens 
ten, a httle exserted. Filaments short, broad, ciliated: anther 
very long, subulate, downy, curved at the base, each cell lengthened 
out into a very slender tube, and bearing a reflexed spur at the 
back near the middle. Ovary fleshy, with ten small cells, the 
top or disc flat. Style longer than the tube of the corolla and a 
little longer than the stamens, slightly thickened upwards. Stigma 
obtuse. 
Fig. 1. Flower. 3. Stamens and pistil. 3. Two of the stamens. 4. Pistil. 
5. Section of ovary;—all more or less magnified. 
