Descriprion.—Shrub, erect, glabrescent, about 14 ft. high, 
with greyish bark and striate puberulous branchlets. Leaves 
elliptic-ovate or obovate, obtuse rounded or emarginate at 
the apex, wedge-shaped or rounded at the base, 3-13 in. 
long, 4-1 in. broad, thinly coriaceous, becoming glabrous, 
conspicuously dotted with numerous large cystoliths in the 
dried state; petioles }~-1 in. long. Cymes short, axillary, 
few-flowered ; bracts and bracteoles minute. Jowers pen- 
dulous. Calya 4 in. long, minutely puberulous outside ; 
serments linear-lanceolate, acute. Corolla flame-coloured 
or yellow, 13-2 in. long, conspicuously two-lipped, pubescent 
outside; tube narrow, cylindric; upper lip slightly curved, 
lower revolute, slightly three-lobed at the tip. Stamens 2, 
nearly equalling the upper lip; filaments flattened, with a 
fairly prominent middle nerve; anther-lobes acute at the 
base, one attached higher than the other. Ovary glabrous, 
surrounded at the base by a thick disk; style minutely 
puberulous, especially in the lower part. Capsule oblong, 
stipitate, about $ in. long, including the stipe—T. A. 
SPRAGUE. 
CuLrivatTion.-—Kew is indebted to Colonel Beddome for 
a plant of this little shrub which grew about 18 in. high 
and flowered in April in a warm greenhouse, where it 
continued to develop flowers till July. It is similar in its 
habit and requirements to some species of Justicia, Jacobinia 
and Peristrophe, and as it agrees with these in being easy to 
propagate by means of cuttings it may well be grown along 
with them for conservatory decoration in spring. It also 
matures seeds under cultivation.— W. Warson. | 
Fig. 1, calyx and style; 2, section of calyx; 8, part of corolla-tube; 4 and 5, 
anthers :—ad/ enlarged, : 
