Duscr. At present our plant forms a shrub from two to three 
feet high. The dranches are stout, terete, smooth. Leaves a 
good deal confined to the ends of the branches, large, six to 
eight inches long, elliptical-cuneate, somewhat waved, entire, 
dark-green, acuminate; the principal nerves impressed above, 
‘prominent beneath. Peduncle terminal, as long as the leaf, 
bein ing a dichotomously divided cyme of very large white blos- 
soms tinged with dull yellow, each sessile on a somewhat scor- 
poid branch. Calyx grecnish-white, cylindrical-clavate, burst- 
Ing at the top irregularly. Corolla very large, plaited, infundi- 
buliformi-campanulate ; the lobes broad and rounded, spreading. 
Stamens five, inserted on the narrow part of the tube, included : 
Jilaments hairy at the base: anthers oblong arrow-shaped, ex- 
trorse. Ovary subglobose. Style rather exceeding the stamens 
in length: stigma twice bifid, segments clavate. 
_ Fig. 1. Portion of the corolla with the stamens laid open. 2. Pistil. 
3. Transverse section of ovary :—magnified. 
