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larly branched, the dranches rough, leafy chiefly towards the 
apices, warted. Leaves alternate, with little or no tendency to 
verticillation, on short stout petioles, four inches to a span and 
a half long, lanceolate, acuminate, remotely bluntly toothed, 
very coriaceous, persistent, deep-green, opaque above, paler and 
often lurid purple beneath: upper surface sometimes mottled 
with purple; costa stout, lateral nerves remote ; petiole with two 
opposite mamilliform g/ands towards the base of the lamina. 
Flowers abundantly produced, in drooping corymés, from the stem 
below the leaves. Common peduncle variable in length, of a 
quarter of an inch to one inch long. Pedicels one inch long, 
narrow-clavate, bright coral-red, as are the calyces and flowers, 
and all these parts are covered with very short hairs. Calya-tube 
hemispherical, with a five-toothed dimé. Corolla almost globose, 
with five obscure angles and as many recurved short segments. 
Epigynous dise entire. Stamens with rather broad filaments 
which are shorter than the anthers ; anthers without ariste, and 
with short tubular apices. 
Fig. 1. Flower with its thickened peduncle. 2. Calyx and pistil. 3. Stamen: 
—magnified. 
