botanists who were actively employed simultaneously in the 
neighbouring island of Java, is not easily explicable. 
Descr. A shrub four to eight feet high, erect, evergreen. 
Branches covered with brown tough bark. eaves four to 
five inches long; the upper opposite, lower alternate, very 
shortly petioled ; oblong-lanceolate, acuminate, quite glabrous, 
shining. Corymb terminal, six to eight flowered ; peduncle 
short, bracts linear-oblong or lanceolate, with tomentose 
apices and margins. Flowers sessile. Perianth pubescent, with 
scattered flaccid hairs; tube slender, two-thirds of an inch 
long ; lobes four to seven, spreading and reflexed, very pale 
yellow. Stamens much exserted, in two approximate series. 
—J. D. H. 
Fig. 1, Flower ; 2, ditto with perianth laid open; 3, anther; 4, ovary and 
disc; 5, transverse section of ovary:—all magnified. 
