by desiccation. Hence the importance of securing figures from 

 living plants. Hence it will be seen that while in P. penduliflora 

 the whole flower is more or less furfuraceo-scabrous and the co- 

 rolla short, in our P. longicolla the flower is quite smooth {lavis) 

 and the corolla elongated and suddenly contracted into a distinct 

 neck between the swollen portion of the tube and the limb. In 

 both the corolla is two-coloured, red for the greater part of the 

 length, then suddenly green. 



Descr. A straggling shrub of a few feet in length, with glossy 

 coriaceous leaves, three or four inches and more in length, shortly 

 petioled, much acuminated, entire, three- to five-veined, with veins 

 connected by fine transverse veinlets (as in many Melastomaccte). 

 Racemes short, axillary, glomerate, drooping, partially bracteo- 

 lated. Pedicels fleshy, thickened upwards, so as to be almost 

 clavate. Ovary jointed upon the pedicel, globose, smooth, having 

 two ovate bracts at the base; free portion of the calyx cup- 

 shaped, with five short, erect, acute lobes. Corolla bottle-shaped, 

 the wide and longest portion of the tube scarlet, the column or 

 neck much contracted, and green as are the five subtriangular 

 and somewhat spreading lobes of the limb. Stamens large, but 

 quite included. Filaments short. Anthers tapering into two 

 erect, tubular horns, opening by a longitudinal pore or slit. 



Pig. 1. Flower with a pair of bracts at the base. 2. The same with the calyx 

 and stamens removed. 3. Single stamen : — all magnified. 



