Mr. Bull, with whom it flowered in November of last year. 
It was provisionally named A. punctata in reference to the 
dotted white edges of the pale bands on the leaves. 
Descr. A weak shrub, glabrous except the young 
branches and petioles, which are minutely pubescent. Stem 
woody, slender, branches terete. Leaves four to five inches 
long, membranous, elliptic-lanceolate, acuminate at both 
ends, narrowed at the base into a slender petiole, tip 
obtuse, deep green above with broad white bands along the 
courses of the midrib and nerves,. pale beneath. Spike 
terminal, sessile, three to four inches long by two to three 
broad, bright yellow throughout except the buds and tips of 
the bracts, which are green. Bracts one and a half inch long, 
decussately closely imbricate, ovate-lanceolate, strongly 
recurved, concave, tip very slender, margins strongly 
spinous-toothed ; bracteoles filiform, longer than the calyx, 
rigid. Calyx one-third of an inch long; sepals narrowly 
lanceolate, acuminate, with needle-like tips. Corolla-tube 
one and a half inch long, slightly curved, nearly equal 
throughout, glabrous; limb one-fourth the length of the 
tube, lobes nearly equal in length, upper bifid, lateral and 
lower ovate subacute. Anthers linear-oblong, subequal ; 
connective hairy, of the inner pair most so. Ovary 
glabrous.—J. D. H, 
Fig. 1, Lateral anthers; 2, one of the inner pair ; 3, ovary and disk; 4, vertical, 
and 5, transverse section of do. :—all enlarged. 
