blood-red, quite glabrous, with very stout midrib, and 
many arching nerves; petiole three to four inches long, 
stout, semi-cylindric. Racemes of flowers crowded on the 
arrested nodes of the stem, very short; peduncles and 
pedicels short, red-purple; bracts minute. Calyx two- 
thirds of an inch long; lobes oblong, erect with recurved | 
tips, coloured externally like the undersurface of the 
leaves, green to the base within, margins ciliate; dorsal 
lobe smallest, free, the rest connate to above the middle. 
Corolla nearly two inches long, slightly decurved, tubular, 
hirsute, pale straw-coloured, posticously gibbous at the 
very base, contracted above it, and then somewhat inflated ; 
lobes very short, orbicular, expanded, flat, primrose-yellow. 
Stamens included ; filaments quite glabrous ; anthers didy- 
mous, each pair adhering by their tips. Ovary ovoid, 
hirsute; style slender ; stigma capitellate, 2-lobed, included. 
Disk-gland solitary, posticous, 2-lobed.—J. D. H. 
Fig. 1, Section of calyx showing disk and pistil; 2, corolla laid open; 
3, base of corolla ; 4 and 5, anthers :—All enlarged. 
