specimen here figured to Kew to be named in September, 
1882. 
Descr. A shrub, hirsute throughout, with long soft hairs, 
especially in the branches and peduncle. Leaves six to ten 
by two to four inches long, rather membranous, elliptic or 
elliptic-lanceolate, acuminate at both ends; nerves very 
numerous, eight to sixteen pairs, slender, arching; petiole 
one-half to one and a half inches long, stout; stipules 
one-half to three-quarters of an inch long, in pairs on each 
side of the stem, narrowly subulate-lanceolate, erect. Pe- 
duncle solitary, axillary or terminal, one to four inches long, 
stout, erect. Bracts two, opposite, spreading, one to one 
and a half inches long, one to two inches broad, broadly 
ovate or subreniform or orbicular-ovate, acute or acuminate, 
scarlet, rugose, hirsute; bracteoles irregular, short, hairy, 
spathulate. Flowers densely crowded, three-fourths of an 
inch long. Calya-lobes short. Corolla twice as long as 
the calyx-lobes, tubular, yellow, pubescent ; lobes five, very 
small, triangular-ovate, spreading; tube with tufts of hairs 
within about the middle. Anthers linear, subsessile near 
the mouth of the corolla, peltately attached. Ovary small, 
two-celled; style slender; stigmas short, linear. Drupe 
blue.—J. D. H. 
Fig. 1, Head cut vertically, of the natural size; 2, bracteole ; 3, bracteoles and 
flower ; 4, vertical section of flower (inaccurate as to lower part); 5, tuft of hairs 
of interior of corolla-tube; 6, anthers; 7, transverse section of ovary :—all enlarged. 
