lepidote. Leaves rather crowded, very shortly petioled, 
two to three inches long, coriaceous, elliptic-oblong, acute, 
tip apiculate, base acute, above yellowish-green, opaque, 
sparsely glandular, puberulous, beneath greenish-yellow, 
closely lepidote ; costa yellow above, produced beyond the 
tip of the leaf as a stout, obtuse mucro; nerves eight or 
ten on each side of the costa, very slender above, more 
_ prominent beneath ; petiole about an eighth of an inch 
long. Flowers six to ten, loosely umbelled at the leafy 
tips of the branches, drooping; bud-scales few, linear- 
oblong, deciduous; pedicels one-half to one inch long, 
decurved, lepidote. Calyx deflexed, very oblique, lepidote ; 
segments five, oblong, obtuse, the tips acuminate and 
aristulate, dorsal one-third of an inch long, anterior 
about half as long, two lateral intermediate in s1Ze. 
Corolla broadly infundibular, pale pink, with bright, blood- 
red spots on the dorsal half of the tube, extending half 
way up the dorsal lobe ; lobes nearly half the Jength of the 
tube, orbicular, recurved, but not strongly. Stamens ten, 
sub-declinate, upcurved, shorter than the corolla, filaments 
villous towards the base; anthers small, pale brown. 
Ovary short, five-celled, lepidote ; style rather longer than 
the stamens, declinate, glabrous, stigma clavate.—J. D. H. 
Fig. 1, Tip-of ] . i bao : 
seales ; 3, lepidote wilt © sok showing the produced midrib and lepidote 
x and style :—All enlarged. 
