Leaves also soft with hairs, opposite, ovate, bluntly dentato-ser- 
rate, moderately acuminate, rather dull green, reticulately veined, 
and blotched with dull purple along the principal veins, beneath 
very pale-green, vinous-coloured along the nerves. Petioles about 
an inch long, stout, with purple lines along the upper margins. 
Peduneles axillary, solitary, as long as, or the superior ones much 
longer than, the leaves, erect, clothed with long, soft, spreading 
hairs, terete, purple below, the rest pale green. Calyx very hairy 
or rather villous; the short turbinate ¢w4e adheres to the lower 
half of the ovary ; Zimé oblique, of five, spreading, triangular seg- 
ments. Corolla large, very villous, pendent ; ube long, slightly 
curved, ventricose, infundibuliform, the mouth very oblique; 
limb of five, large, unequal, spreading, rounded, Jodes ; the colour 
dark rose, the limb dotted with purple, and the tube within 
paler-coloured, but marked with larger dots and blotches. 
Stamens five; filaments downy : there is a very small fifth ador- 
tive stamen. Free portion of the ovary ovate-globose, very vil- 
lous, with five, large, conspicuous, erect, linear g/ands at the base. 
Style shorter than the tube of the corolla, thick. Stgma bifid, 
upper segment the shortest. 
Fig. 1. Stamens. 2. Pistil and hypogynous glands :—magnified. 
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