by Mr. Curtis, when collecting for Messrs. Veitch, by whom: 
the plant was sent to Kew in May of last year. 
Descr. A nearly glabrous shrub; branches terete, smooth, 
green. Leaves four to six inches long, very shortly petioled, 
ovate-oblong, acuminate, quite entire, base rounded or 
acute, glabrous, studded with raphides, thickly coriaceous, 
bright pale green above, paler beneath with a very stout 
broad midrib, nerves eight to ten pairs strong beneath 
arched. Spike four to six inches long ; peduncle and rachis 
strict, stout, erect, finely pubescent, unbranched. lowers 
crowded all round the rachis, forming a conical inflorescence; 
bracts and bracteoles minute, subulate. Calyx one-third 
of an inch long, pubescent; lobes subulate, acute. Corolla 
white, with a faint lemon tinge on the middle of the lower 
segments; tube an inch long, quite cylindric, pubescent, 
throat not dilated; limb an inch and a half in diameter, 
obscurely two-lipped, quite flat, segments oblong obtuse, 
the lower largest. Fertile stamens with purple anthers; 
rudimentary stamens minute at the base of the fertile. 
Ovary glabrous.—J. D. H. 
Fig. 1, Calyx, bracteoles, and style; 2, interior of portion of corolla-tube with 
stamens ; 3, fertile anther ; 4, pes and disk :—all satenaed. 
