resembles in general effect, from its profuse flowering. The — 
specimen here figured flowered with I. A. Henry, Hsq., in 
April, 1869, and was considerately communicated to us for 
figuring. 
Descr. <A large dush or small tree, everywhere glabrous 
except the pubescent racemes, or in some Ceylon states 
having the under surface of the leaves sparsely covered with 
short stiff appressed bristles, occupying the position of the small 
brown dots that occur on all the forms of the plant. Branches 
stout, obtusely angled, shining. eaves two and a half to 
three and a half inches long, sometimes two and a half 
inches broad, very variable in shape, elliptic, ovate, obovate 
or lanceolate, acute or acuminate, tip apiculate and glandular, 
margin obtusely serrulate, very coriaceous and _ reticulate ; 
nerves very obliquely arched; base acute,rounded or subcordate; _ 
petioles one-eighth to one-quarter inch long, stout. Racemes 
axillary, strict, erect or inclined, shorter than the leaves, 
many-flowered, pubescent. Mowers secund, drooping, shortly 
pedicelled; bracts and bracteoles concave, acute. Calya 5-fid 
to the middle ; lobes ovate, acuminate, green. Corolla globose, 
or broadly ovoid, one-third of an inch long, white or pale 
pink; mouth small; lobes rounded. Filaments dilated, 
puberulous; anther-cells with long forked recurved tips. 
Ovary 5-lobed, pubescent. Fruit a capsule, enclosed in the 
accrescent fleshy blue-purple calyx.—J. D. H. 
Fig. 1, Flower, pedicel, and bracteoles; 2, stamens; 3, calyx and ovary: 
—all magnified. a 
