was detected by Mr. Gustav Mann. The dried specimens were 

 unfortunately lost, with many other of his collections, in the 

 steamer ' Cleopatra.' It is the more fortunate therefore that 

 we have succeeded in raising the plant from seeds sent by the 

 same indefatigable collector. Of the size to which the plant at- 

 tains we are at present ignorant. It flowers freely when only 

 two to three feet high. Whatever differences of opinion there 

 may be about the genus, there can be none about the species : 

 the very soft pubescence of the terete leaves, the very long, 

 deeply striated, villous, green tube of the corolla, equal in width 

 throughout, and the octomerous flowers, are very characteristic. 



Fig. 1. Calyx, ovary, and base of the style. 2. Pistil. 3. Vertical, and, 

 4. Transverse section of the ovary: — magnified. 



