in the two; and the present is assuredly a most distinct and 
undescribed species. It is not, indeed, entirely unknown to me ; 
for I possess specimens of it in a collection sent by Mr. Seemann, 
of H.M.S. Herald, gathered in September, 1847, at “ Pambo de 
Yéerba buena, El Equador.” Mr. Veitch’s plant, from Mr. Lobb, 
is probably from the same country; though the “ mountains of 
Peru” are given as the station in the Gardeners’ Chronicle ; 
but the “Andes of Cuenca” is the true station, and this, I 
think, accords with Seemann’s locality. Mr. Lobb himself spoke 
of it in his letter to Mr. Veitch as the “loveliest of the lovely, 
found in shady woods and growing from two to four feet high.” 
Dzscr. A moderate sized shrub, woody below, but with the 
branches stout and succulent, obscurely three-angled and of a rich 
blood-red colour, shining, glabrous. eaves mostly ternate, six 
to eight inches long, between ovate and elliptical, petiolate, not 
tapering at the base, acute or slightly acuminate at the points, 
obscurely ciliated, entire at the margin, or only having minute 
tooth-like processes o¢easioned by the presence of small oblong 
glands, dark velvety green above, rich purple beneath, penni- 
nerved, the nerves nearly horizontal, but uniting within the 
margin so as to form a wavy vein, almost as in the leaves of 
Myrtacee. Petiole about an inch long, erect or spreading, 
stout, of the same colour as the branch. Sfipu/es triangular, as 
in many Rubiaceae, between the petioles. Peduncles axillary, 
solitary, single-flowered, red, shorter than the leaves, indeed, 
scarcely longer than the petioles. Ovary between cylindrical 
and turbinate, with four furrows. Calya between infundibuliform 
and hypocrateriform, four inches long, bright red, the fuée 
swollen at the base; /imé of four spreading, ovate, acuminate 
segments, tipped with green. Pefals large, deep red, nearly orbi- 
cular, waved, very patent, and pressed as it were upon the segments 
of the calyx, than which they are shorter. Stamens shorter than 
the petals, red. Style exceeding the stamens, terminated by a 
remarkably large, four-lobed stigma, rendered white, or yellowish- 
white, by the copious pollen. 
Fig. 1. Portion of a leaf, to show the tooth-like gland :—slightly magnified. 
