1835, and flowered freely in the stove in the end of April 
and beginning of May following, when scarcely nine inches 
Descr. Shrub erect, branches ascending, whole plant 
glabrous, except the stigma and the inside of the tube of 
the corolla. Leaves (two and a half inches long, one and 
a quarter broad) obovate, petioled. Stzpules subulate, 
herbaceous, small, dilated, connate, and membranaceo- 
herbaceous at the base, persisting. Flowers in dense ter- 
minal cymes, perfumed: pedicels with two opposite fila- 
mentous bracteas in the middle. Calyx four-cleft, herba- 
ceous, segments subulate. Corolla white, hypocrateriform ; 
tube (seven and a half lines long) slender, cylindrical, 
greenish towards its base, hairy within, especially in its 
upper part, hairs somewhat reflected ; limb four-parted, 
(three-fourths of an inch across) flat, in the bud imbricated 
and slightly convolute; segments obovato-oblong, with a 
small mucro in the centre, from which a dark-green streak 
passes for a little way along the back. Stamens alternate, 
with the lobes in the throat of the corolla, and becoming 
reflected between these. Anthers linear, cleft at the base, 
pointed at the apex ; filaments short, attached to the back 
of the anther at the top of the notch; pollen-granules 
minute, rounded, white. Pistil more than twice as long 
as the tube of the corolla ; stigma clavate, green, pubes- 
cent, the hairs being arranged in many vertical lines ; style 
white, erect, filiform. Germen inferior, crowned with a 
small depressed disk, which is superior. Graham. 
