calyz, Hanst., pendulous from the branches which support 
them, at other times, as in the case of C. glabra here 
described, quite erect. The plant from which the material 
for our plate has been derived was acquired for the Kew 
collection from Mr. Lemoine in 1907. It has thriven well 
in an open compost, rich in humus, in a moist atmosphere 
kept at a temperature of 50°-60° F., and has formed a 
handsome shrublet about two feet high which is covered 
in spring with bright scarlet flowers. Propagation may 
be effected either by seeds or by cuttings. The seeds, 
however, are very minute and the young plants, which 
grow slowly, are difficult to raise. Cuttings, on the other 
hand, root readily in sandy peat and soon develop into 
shapely plants which flower freely while still quite small. 
Drscriprion.—Shrub, up to 2 ft. high, branching above 5 
stem about 3 in. thick at the base, twigs nodose, 1 in, thick, 
naked below, leafy upwards, internodes 3-3 in, long. 
Leaves opposite, clustered towards the ends of the twigs, 
short-petioled, elliptic-oblong, obtuse, 1-1{ in. long, 1—} in, 
wide, fleshy, convex above with the midrib sunk, lateral 
nerves obscure, paler and very faintly punctate beneath, 
obscurely ciliolate along the margin, ‘elsewhere glabrous. 
Flowers solitary in the upper axils; pedicels 2-bracteate at 
the base, $-i in. long ; bracts ligulate, obtuse, about 4 in, 
long. Calya-lobes erect, ligulate, obtuse, about x in. long, 
$ in. wide, sparingly pilose. Corolla in bud acutely 
cuspidate, about 3 in, long when full 
externally with short capitate hairs; tube 13-13 in. long, 
slightly widened upwards; anterior lobe deflexed, lanceolate, 
over 4 in. long, its margins revolute; lateral lobes narrowed 
argins revolute ; galea 
produced beyond the lateral lobes for 4-3 in., its margins 
slightly reflexed, Filaments united below and in front in 
a short sheath, finely pilose: anthers oblong, cohering by 
their tips. Disk reduced to a solitary retuse posticous 
gland, 1 lin. long. Ovary silky-pubescent ; style glandular- 
hairy. Berry supported by the persistent calyx, depressed- 
globose, white, pubescent, about 4 in. across. 
PIES Nae as eri cere ee OT 
Fig. 1, calyx and pistil; 2, base of corolla-t 
ube laid open, and stamens; 
3 and 4, anthers; 5 fruit :-—qi/ 
enlarged except 5, which ts of nutural size. 
