on each side, forming a curious contrast to the dark stem. 
Raceme stout, erect, terminal, many-flowered, simple or 
compound at the base; rachis stout, green; bracts small, 
oblong, obtuse, recurved, green; pedicels about a quarter 
of an inch long. Culyz-tube hemispheric; limb expanded, 
of five unequal broadly-ovate obtuse lobes, the upper 
smallest. Corolla white, one inch long, three-quarters of 
an inch in diameter across the broadest part of the ven- 
tricose tube, which is slightly curved and gibbous on the 
under side; limb three-quarters of an inch broad, short, 
recurved, five-lobed, the lobes very broad, truncated, the 
three lower irregularly and rather deeply toothed ; obscurely 
spotted within. Stamens included, filaments slender, curved ; 
anthers cohering cross-wise, small, two-celled, with lon- 
gitudinal dehiscence; staminode minute, subulate. Disk 
depressed, . Style short, curved ; stigma obtuse.—/. D, H. 
Fig. 1, Pedicel, calyx-limb, disk, and style; 2, corolla laid open :—both 
enlarged. 
