part of the plant, terete, the younger ones herbaceous, indicating 
arapid growth. Leaves alternate, small in proportion to the 
size of the shrub, at least on those flowering branches which 
we have alone seen, oblong-oval, or somewhat obovate, acute, 
entire, smooth on both surfaces, dark green above, paler beneath, 
penninerved ; the petioles from half an inch in length, purple. 
Flowers very large, almost a foot long, solitary, termimal. What 
may be called the peduncle is extremely short and thick, jointed 
unto the apex of the branch, not half an inch in length. Calyx 
four inches long, tubular, two-lipped at the extremity, five- 
angled, the angles expanding into wings towards the lower part 
of the calyx: lips entire, acute. Corolla nearly thrice the length 
of the calyx, funnel-shaped, greenish cream-colour, white at the 
limb : the lower half of the tube is slender, striated, the upper half 
bell-shaped, but contracted at the mouth, with five ribs becoming 
very slender near the mouth and there branched and reticulated : 
limb spreading, deeply five-lobed, the lobes reticulated, smgularly 
crisped and waved at the margin. Stamens included. Style 
exserted about an inch beyond the mouth of the tube. Stigma 
convex and a little dilated. 
