nerved ; nerves beneath pubescent, reticulated. Flowers from 
the old wood, in short almost sessile racemes; rachis or 
peduncle one to two inches long; pedicel curved, one inch 
long; ovary as long, tomentose.  Perianth with a cylin- 
dric pale tube, half to one inch long by half to two- 
thirds of an inch in diameter, which is truncated and introrse 
at the base, beyond this the perianth is suddenly contracted, 
refracted on itself, and expands into a broadly oblique funnel- 
shaped limb, with an ovate-cordate, concave mouth, two and 
a half to three inches in diameter ; basal part or tube whitish, 
with pale: brown streaks ; limbs strongly ribbed and veined, 
externally, pitted between the veins, pale brownish-red, 
clouded with darker blotches; inner surface cream-coloured, 
with large stellate or irregularly mottled purple blotches, 
throat cream-coloured. Column short, with six anthers, and 
as many ovate-lanceolate erect stigmatic lobes.—J. D. H. 
Fig. 1, Column, magnified. 
