which is also found in Dominica, aa well aa in Jamaic 

 Vincent and St. Lucia and Martinique, and which has 

 petioled leaves. 



Descr. A glabrous erect herb, with smooth obtusely I- 

 angled stems. Leave* opposite, lour to seven inches Long by 

 one and a half to three broad, sessile, or very shortly 

 petioled, glabrous on both surfaces, obovate-oblong or 0D- 

 lanceolate, acuminate, serrate, base rounded or subcorti 

 nerves 10-12 on each side of the midrib, ascending and 

 arched. Flowers solitary or fascicled on the axils of the 

 leaves; peduncles half to one inch long, minutely puberu- 

 lous. Calyx one third inch long, pnbernlons ; tube inflated, 

 tapering to the base ; lobes about equalling the tube, o^ 

 acute, with a mucro at the hack of the tip. Corolla jeWow, 

 twice as lone: as the calyx; tube oylindrie below, gradually 

 becoming ventricose in front close to 

 mouth; lobes small, rounded, horizontal, with b few hairs 

 on the upper surface, glabrous within the tub 5 

 included, rudiment of the fifth strap-shaped. Disk paten- 

 ter m. Ova.ru globose, tapering into a stonl styl< ; stigma 

 capitate.—'/. /'). //. 



Fig. l. Flown-; -.'.enrol!;! bud open : 8, dial and "\.<v\ —atlenlai 



