with black-brown bark, branchlets woody, setulose; leaf- 

 buds about half an inch long, lanceolate, scales small, 

 glabrous.' Leaves two and a half to three inches long, 

 shortly petiolecl, elliptic-lanceolate, sub-acute, coriaceous, 

 above dark green, opaque, with a pale midrib, covered, as 

 are the margins, with short, scattered, stiff sub-erect 

 hairs, base acute, narrowed into a rather stout petiole one- 

 sixth to one-fourth of an inch long ; beneath pale green, 

 quite glabrous, sparsely lepidote, nerves about nine on each 

 side of the stout midrib, very slender, spreading. Flowers 

 few, sub-racemosely corymbose on a very stout, terminal, 

 erect, annulate rhachis, sub-erect or spreading, white, 

 with blood-red oblong spots towards the bases of the 

 upper corolla-lobes. Pedicels three-fourths to one inch 

 long. Calyx minute, cupular, lepidote, margin undulate. 

 Corolla two inches across the limb, tube shortly funnel- 

 shaped, pubescent within, strongly 5-ribbed; lobes longer 

 than the tube, spreading and recurved, oblong, obtuse, the 

 three upper rather shorter than the two lower. Stamens 

 ten, exserted, nearly as long as the corolla-lobes, filaments 

 declinate, spreading, bearded below the middle ; anthers 

 very small, pale brown. Ovary conically oblong, terete, 

 5-celled, densely lepidote ; style slender, glabrous ; stigma 

 capitellate. — J. D. H. 



Fig. 1, Portion of upper, and 2, of under surface of leaf ; 3, lepidote scale ; 

 4, calyx and ovary ; 5, (stamen : -All enlarged. 



