Mr. Lynch, from the Botanical Gardens of the University of 
Cambridge. It is a green-house plant, flowering in June 
and July. - 
Descr.—A small, evergreen, glabrous shrub, with stem 
tuberous at the base. Branches very stout, leafy; bark 
brown. Leaves one and a half to two inches long, very 
shortly and stoutly petioled, oblong or elliptic, obtuse, sub- . 
acute or apiculate, coriaceous, minutely distantly punctate 
on both surfaces, bright green above, paler beneath; 
young brick-red; nerves few, very slender, arched. 
Flowers solitary and fascicled in the axils of the leaves; — 
pedicels very stout, one quarter to half an inch long or 
more, minutely bibracteolate about the middle, green. 
Calyz obpyramidal, five-winged, green, mouth truncate, 
minutely five-toothed. Corolla an inch and a half long, 
tubular, terete, slightly dilated downwards, scarlet ; lobes 
small, triangular, spreading. Filaments united in a mem- 
branous tube; anther-cells prolonged into a single tube 
with an oblong, terminal, anticous pore, and a two-toothed 
tip ; connective dorsally thickened. Berry globose, white, 
- with five red ribs.—J. D. H. | 7 
Fig. 1, portion of leaf; 2, oe and style; 3, four stamens, front view ; 
5, a single stamen, side view :—Al/ enlarged. = 
