Salak; Dr. Horsfield, “ on the volcanic range extending through 
Java, in dense forests, at an elevation of 4,000 feet above the 
level of the sea.” Hence we are not surprised to learn from 
Mr. Veitch that it succeeds well under the mere shelter of a 
Greenhouse, where, that able cultivator thinks, it may probably 
be brought to blossom all the year round. 
Descr. a moderate sized sliruh, with spreading branches. 
Leaves scattered, subcoriaceous, oblong-oval, or approaching to 
obovate, acute, tapering into a short naked above, beneath 
minutely dotted with very small brown peltate scales. Floioers 
fascicled, eight to ten or twelve or more, large, handsome, termi¬ 
nal. Peduncle glabrous, but squamulose, single-flowered. Calyx 
very small, five-lobed. Corolla large, showy, orange-coloured, 
(though not bright), with scattered red spots, between infundibuli- 
form and campanulate: the tube gradually widening upw^ards 
into a five-lobed, nearly equal limb : segments broadly obovate, 
rotundate, obtuse, spreading, or a little revolute. Stamens ten, 
slightly ascendent; five on one side the style, lying against the 
corolla, five on the other side. Anthers dark purple, almost black, 
two-pored at the apex, from which pore the white pollen falls 
out in cohering masses. Ovary oblong, five-lobed. Stigma 
peltate, with five points (the margin looking less like an indu- 
sium than in the figure of Dr. Horsfield). Style about as long as 
the stamens. 
Fig. 1. Under side of a portion of the leaf, natm-al size, showing the sqnamu- 
lose dots. 2. Portion of the same:— magnified. 3. A scale;—more highly 
magnified. 4. Pistil:— magnified. 
