Descr. This very peculiar plant, whether it be in its natural 
state, or metamorphosed by hybridization, has in its mode of growth 
and foliage more of a Juanulloa than of a Brugmansia or any 
frutescent Datura, and more still of a So/andra, than which it 
forms a much more compact bush; it is moderately branched. 
Branches ternate, woody. Leaves large, oval, firm, subcoriaceous, 
glossy, shortly acuminate, quite entire, tapering into a stout 
petiole about half an inch long. /owers, in our plant, lateral 
(not strictly axillary), in pairs, very large, drooping. Peduncle 
scarcely an inch long, stout, curved downwards. Calyx broad- 
ovate and an inch and three-quarters long and as much broad, 
of a thick, subcoriaceous texture, very broad-ovate, five-valved 
and five-angled, in bud sharply so at the sinus; estivation val- 
vate, bursting irregularly into five acute lobes of unequal lengths, 
sometimes two or more continuing adherent at the margin (as in 
Juanulloa). Corolla nearly six inches long, and quite as broad 
across the limb, if allowance be made for the recurvation of its 
lobes; the form is between infundibuliform and campanulate ; 
the colour quite green, but with a peculiar tinge of yellow upon 
it; the tube has five longitudinal angles, and, alternating with 
these, five lesser ones ; the mouth spreads widely ; the limb has 
five broad but sharply acuminate, quite revolute odes, each 
with three impressed lines or longitudinal plaits. Stamens five. 
Filaments erect and approximate, a little longer than the tube, 
so that the linear anthers, an inch long, are quite exserted. Ovary 
broad-ovate, surrounded by a fleshy ring. Style filiform, quite 
as long as the filaments of the stamens. Stigma an inch long, 
incrassated, bifid, the apices of the lobes spreading. 
Fig. 1. Pistil and fleshy rine. ae 
magnified. y Ting. 2. Ovary, cut through transversely : 
