Klotzsch’s genus Themistoclesia (Linnea, xxiv. 41), which, 
however, has a half-globose calyx. As many of that author’s 
genera will certainly fall into Zhibaudia on a revision of the 
Order, it appears to me safe to regard the present plant as a 
Thibaudia too. | 
Descr. A small, much-branched, rigid shrub. Branches 
stout, pale-green, and—as well as the leaves, peduncles, and 
calyces—covered with distant, lax, soft, spreading hairs. Leaves 
numerous, spreading and deflexed, half an inch long, ovate, 
obtuse, quite entire, often glabrescent above, which is deep 
shining-green, beneath pale; midrib and nerves none on either 
surface ; petiole very short. Pedicels axillary, solitary or two 
together, as long as the leaves, woolly. Flowers nodding or 
drooping, nearly an inch long. Calyx short, almost square 
in outline, pale-green, the base dilated and five-lobed, sides 
acutely five-angled or rather with five deep depressions ; lobes 
broadly triangular, acute. Corolla narrow-urceolate or tubu- 
lar and inflated below, obscurely five-angled, with five short 
spreading and recurved lobes, dark-red and shining, quite 
glabrous. Filaments very short, free, oblong, margins ciliated. 
Anthers oblong, incurved, a little longer than the filaments, 
with a very long, straight, slender, double tube, opening by 
two oblong pores. Style slender, exserted; stigma minute. 
Ovary five-celled, many-ovuled. J. D. H. 
Fig. 1. Flower. 2. Calyx. 3 and 4. Stamens :—all magnified. 
