specimens the tips of the anthers are exserted, in others the 

 style, whence it may be assumed that the flowers are more 

 or less dimorphic. The leaves in the cultivated plant are 

 rather narrower than in the common Brazilian form. The 

 specimen here figured has been for some years at Kew, and 

 all tradition of its origin is lost. It flowers in the month 

 of September. 



Descb. A shrub ; branches terete or very obscurely 

 angled ; all parts but the upper surface of the leaves clothed 

 with a very fine tomentum. Leaves opposite, five to nine 

 inches long, elliptic-lanceolate or oblong, two to three inches 

 broad, acuminate, rather membranous, bright green above, 

 yellow green below with twelve to fifteen pairs of stout 

 arching nerves, which as well as the stout midrib are reddish, 

 the nerves above are yellow ; cross nervules very faint ; 

 base narrowed into a petiole a quarter to half of an inch 

 long; stipules two on each side of the petiole, subulate, 

 erect, united at the distant bases. Thyrsus terminal or 

 from the upper axil, four to seven inches long, contracted, 

 erect or inclined ; peduncle stout, terete, and rachis and 

 branches red ; bracts subulate, deciduous. Flowers two- 

 thirds of an inch long, shortly pedicelled, pedicel swollen 

 beneath the small pubescent calyx. Calyx-lobes triangular. 

 Corolla tubular, quite straight, slightly swollen at the base, 

 pale yellow, tomentose ; mouth hardly dilated, lobes short 

 triangular margined with red ; tube with a row of long 

 villi more or less collected in five pencils below the middle. 

 Stamens five, inserted above the middle of the tube ; fila- 

 ments very short, slightly hairy at the base; anthers 

 slender. Ovary two-celled, subglobose, pubescent, crowned 

 with a tumid hemispheric disk. Style slender, stigma 

 obscurely two-lobed, ovules one erect in each cell. Drupe 

 about one-third of an inch in diameter, subglobose, rather 

 natteriedand broader than long, deeply grooved, dark purple. 



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