branchlets glabrous or hairy. Leaves alternate, three to 

 five inches long, variable in shape, from ovate to oblong- 

 or elliptic-lanceolate, or narrowed at both ends, to lanceo- 

 late, acuminate, quite entire to repand-crenate, more or 

 less strigillose on the dark green upper surface, pale and 

 sub-hispidly pubescent on the under, strongly seven- to 

 nine-nerved, base narrowed into the short, often hairy 

 petiole. Flowers very large, solitary, sub-sessile in the 

 uppermost leaf axils, or fascicled, or sub-spicate in an 

 elongate branchlet. Bracts two, sessile, linear-oblong, 

 obtuse, acute, or rounded at the tip, an inch to an inch 

 and a half long, green. Calyx about as long as the bracts, 

 glabrous ; segments erect, linear-lanceolate, finely acumi- 

 nate, strongly nerved, green. Corolla bright rose-purple ; 

 tube three inches long, slightly decurved, slender, 

 somewhat twisted in the lower half, above this inflated, 

 between funnel- and bell-shaped, strongly many-ribbed, 

 dilated above into a five-lobed limb three to four inches 

 in diameter; lobes nearly equal, orbicular, spreading, and 

 recurved, emarginate at the tip, strongly three-nerved, 

 cross-nervules distant. Stamens four, filaments sub- 

 equal, very slender, connate in pairs in the lower third ; 

 anthers included, small, linear-oblong. Ovary narrow, 

 terete, pubescent, narrowed into a very long, slender, 

 glabrous style unequally bifid at the tip. — J. D. H. 



Fig. 1, bracts, calyx, and style; 2, portion of corolla with stamens; 3 and 

 4, anthers; 5, ovary: — all enlarged. 



