Backban in the Hadramaut, by Mr. Lunt, one of the staff 
of the Royal Gardens, who, as botanical collector, accom- 
panied Mr. Bent on his interesting excursion into that 
country in 1893. The plants raised flowered in a green- 
house in April, 1896. 
Descr.—A small shrub; branches slender, branchlets, 
peduncles and petioles clothed with a hoary pubescence. 
Leaves two to three inches long, linear, obtuse acute or 
apiculate, quite glabrous, yellow-green above, paler beneath, 
base narrowed into a very short petiole. Cymes unbelli- 
form, inserted between the petioles, six- to eight-flowered ; 
peduncles and pedicels about one anda half inch long, 
slender, pubescent, pale red-brown; bracts minute. 
Flowers nearly an inch broad. Sepals small, lanceolate. 
Petals elliptic, subacute, glabrous, straw-colrd., reflexed. 
Scales cup-shaped, green, mouth truncate, margins be- 
hind on each side, produced a little upward, with three 
crenatures. /ruit an ovoid beaked follicle, three to four 
inches long, clothed with scattered, erect bristles.— 
oD. H. 
Fig. 1, Corona with the base of the corolla below it; 2, @ Suprahaped = 
of the corona ; 3, the same, with one side removed; 4, staminal column wit 
the coronal cups removed ; 5, pollinia:—A// enlarged. 
