an inch to one inch long, and as much in breadth, on 
petioles two to six lines long, varying from broadly cordate- 
ovate to orbicular-reniform, acute or obtuse, apiculate, 
dark green, reticulate, variegated with white above, pale 
green beneath. Cymes axillary, pedunculate, two- or three- 
flowered. Pedunele two to five lines long. Bracts minute. 
Pedicels about a quarter of an inch long. Sepals three- 
quarters of a line long, linear-lanceolate, acute. Corolla 
slightly curved ; tube seven to nine lines long, globosely 
inflated at the ‘base, cylindric above, slightly dilated into 
a funnel-shaped mouth at the apex, streaked with purple; 
lobes three to three and a half lines long, erect, cohering at 
the tips, narrowly spathulate from a deltoid base, replicate, 
blackish-purple, ciliate with purple hairs. Outer corona 
shortly cupular, with five short, obtuse, pocket-like 
lobules, white. Inner coronal-lobes linear or linear-lan¢eo- 
late, acute, connivent-erect, recurving at the apex, adnate 
at the base to the outer corona, white. —N. HE. Brown. 
Fig. 1, corolla; 2, corona; 8, one of the inner coronal-lobes attached to a 
stamen; 4, pollen-masses : :—All enlarged. ‘ 
