“« Speciosi generis planta speciosissima,”’ to the noble Col- 
lection at Woburn, where they flowered in November, 
1839, when Mr. Forses kindly communicated to me the 
specimen here represented. It inhabits the mountains 
bordering on Sylhet, and was thence introduced by Mr. 
De Sitva to the Calcutta Botanic Garden, where it flowers 
at nearly the same season as in the stove in our country. 
Descr. The plant forms a Shrub of from four to six 
feet high, branched, the branches obsoletely quadrangular, 
downy. Leaves opposite, large, eight to ten inches and 
even a foot or more in length, petiolated, elliptical, acute 
at both extremities, entire, or sometimes obsoletely crenat- 
ed, glabrous, with the midrib (which is reddish as well as 
the young branches) prominent beneath. Floral leaves, or 
bracteas, resembling these but infinitely smaller, scarcely an 
inch long, soon deciduous. Raceme erect, terminal, com- 
pound, almost a compact thyrsus, six to eight inches long. 
Pedicels short. Calyx hairy, ovate, cut into five equal, 
linear-lanceolate, erect segments. Corolla reddish-yellow, 
villous or downy ; the tube very long, curved, the limb 
two-lipped : upper lip ascending, bifid; lower patent, with 
three lanceolate lobes. Stamens two, perfect, and the rudi- 
ments of two others. Filaments glabrous, a little exserted. 
“sawn linear-oblong. Germen ovato-oblong. Style in- 
Fig. 1. Portion of the Corolla, with the Stamens, 2, Calyx and Pistil. 
3. Ovary —magnified. 
