Hugh Low from Madagascar through their collector, whose 
name it bears. The drawing was made in August of last 
year. 
Dsscr. A slender shrub, with very dark green leaves and 
branches. Leaves opposite, three to four inches long, 
shortly petioled, oblong or oblong-lanceolate, quite entire, 
narrowed at the tip ito an obtuse point, base acute or 
rounded, pale beneath; nerves numerous, slender and spread- 
ing ; petiole one-tenth of an inchlong. Cymes terminal, se 
flowered; peduncle rather longer than the petiole, pedice : 
shorter. Calyx very small, of five subulate erect teet 
much shorter than the tube of the corolla. Corolla per- 
fectly glabrous, scarlet; tube two-thirds of an inch long, 
the slightly swollen upper part containing the stamens 
twice as long as the lower, which is pubescent within ; lobes 
nearly an inch long, ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, base 
subcordate, margins slightly undulate, disk suru 
the mouth stellate; hairy. Stamens subulate, with shor 
pubescent anthers. Hypogynous disc obsolete. Oe 
glabrous; style slender, stigma constricted in the middle, 
obtuse.—J. D. H. 
Fig. 1, Portion of corolla and stamens; 2, stamen; 3, ovary; 4, transverse 
section of ditto :—all enlarged. 
