(from Java?), which differs only in the rather longer 

 corolla tube. 



Descr. — A sparingly branched shrub, about three feet 

 high, with very stout, terete, glabrous, fistular stems, and 

 white bark ; internodes swollen, hollow. Leaves opposite 

 and alternate, a foot long, linear-oblong, acute or obtuse, 

 dark green polished, base acute, obtuse or cordate, 

 costa stout, with about twelve pairs of nerves ; petiole 

 short, stout, fistular. Panicle terminal, shortly peduucled, 

 a foot high, pyramidal, very many-flowered, pubescent ; 

 rachis green, strict ; branches very many, mauy-flowered, 

 slender, spreading, red-brown, as are the small, subu- 

 late bracteoles, short pedicels, and lobes of the calyx. 

 Calyx puberulous, about one-third of an inch long ; tube 

 short, green ; lobes lanceolate, acuminate, erect. Corolla 

 ochreous-red ; tube about one-third longer than the calyx ; 

 lobes half an inch long, obovate-oblong, tips rounded. 

 Filaments an inch long, very slender, ascending, red ; 

 anthers very small. Ovary globose; style as long as the 

 stamens, red, arms slender. Berry globose, a quarter of 

 an inch in diameter, black. — J. D. H. 



"Fig. 1, section of calyx and ovary ; 2 and 3, anthers ; 4, arms of style :— all 

 enlarged. * 



