in a stove in September of the following year, when about 

 four feet high. 



Descr. — A branching shrub, about 6 ft. high, with 

 stout glabrous branches, and green, terete branchlets, as 

 thick as a swan's-quill. Leaves 5-8 inches long, t 

 uppermost part as large as the lower, oblong, or obovate 

 oblong, obtuse, narrowed into a short, broad petiole, dark 

 green above, with about nine nerves on each side of the 

 midrib, paler beneath. Stipules large, broader than the 

 branch, very broadly obovate, convex, and being reflexed 

 from below the middle appear as green globose bodies 

 between the insertions of the leaves. Flowers crowded in 

 clusters between the uppermost pairs of leaves, sessile. 

 Calyx tube^ of an inch long, obconical, deeply 10-grooved, 

 with rounded ribs, puberulous, green ; segments 1-1J in. 

 long, linear-oblong, obtuse, erect, bright green, indis- 

 tinctly nerved, margins ciliolate. Dish tumid, girt with a 

 ring of conical glands. Corolla white ; tube four inches 

 long, slender, terete, throat hardly dilated, silky within ; 

 lobes five and a half inches long, elongate-lanceolate, 

 with obtuse tips, spreading and recurved. Anthers linear, 

 sessile in the throat of the corolla, dorsally inserted, 

 connective shortly produced, obtuse. Style very long, 

 hirsute in the upper part within the throat; stigmatic 

 arm cylindric, hairy. Ovary 2-celled, cells many-ovuled. 

 —J.D.H. J 



Fig. 1, Calyx with two sepals removed, showing the disk and ring of 

 ep.gynous glands; 2, throat of corolla with bases of lobes laid on en showing 



ollZ^-AU^ed^ ° f Style and StigmatiC armS "' 4 ' trans ™ rse secti0Q 



