thick and fleshy, entire, |)ennincrved. Flotoers terminal, generally 
upon a pendent branch, find then they incline upwards and 
become erect, fascicled or subiunbellate; eight or ten flowers or 
probably more are in a fascicle. Peduncles short, single-flowered. 
Calyx deeply cut, almost to the base, into five linear-subulate, 
erect teeth. Corolla in general shape much resembling that of 
jE. speciosus, but of an uniform dark purj)le or puce colour; the 
inside of the mouth, which is contracted, yellow and surrounded 
by a band of black: the lobes erect, upper one bifid. Stame7is: 
filaments very much exserted, and connected in pairs by the 
oblong anthers. Ftyle much shorter than the stamens, scarcely 
exserted. 
