Gardens in May, 1893. The flowers, as Mr. Watson in- 

 forms me, opened in the evening, and invariably fell on the 

 following morning. 



Descr. — A tall, handsome tree. Leaves sessile, sub- 

 whorled, 1-2 ft. long, spreading and decurved, thin, 

 oblanceolate, narrowed into a very short petiole, margins 

 undulate and toothed, bright green, with many spreading 

 nerves, pale beneath, midrib very broad, and raised be- 

 neath. Floivers in long simple axillary pendulous racemes 

 2 ft. long, rachis dark red-brown, terete. Flowers shortly, 

 stoutly pedieelled ; pedicels dark green, terete. Calyx-tube 

 turbinate, angular ; lobes four, rounded. Petals before ex- 

 pansion forming a scarlet ball about the size of a large 

 pea ; when expanded, 3^ in. long, ovate, subacute, recurved, 

 pale flesh-coloured. Stamens innumerable, erecto-patent, 

 forming a brush three inches in diameter, of very slender 

 filaments with minute yellow anthers. Ovary turbinate, 

 4-angled ; style filiform pink, stigma most minute. Fruit 

 (according to Gaudichaud's drawing, 3 inches long by 

 1| in. broad, with four ribbed angles, which are decurrent 

 on the pedicel. — J. D. H. 



Fig. 1, Calyx and pistil ; 2, stamens ; 3, section of ovary ; 4, ovule ; 

 5, reduced view of whole plant : — All enlarged. 



