our gardens, and the others Indian, as 4. saccat (Tab. nost. 
3640) and 4. Thwaitesii (Tab. nost. 4918). 
Descr. Arborescent ; - bark grey, cracked ; branches sar- 
mentose, jointed, zigzag, remarkably swollen at the nodes; 
young parts petioles and nerves of the leaf beneath covered 
with a short red tomentum. Leaves five to eight inches, ob- 
long, acute or acuminate, rounded and often unequal at the 
base, deep green, rugose and glabrous above, with impressed 
nerves, pale beneath with much raised pubescent nerves; 
petiole one-fourth to one-third of an inch, stout, pubescent. 
Flowers solitary, inserted at the nodes; pedicels red, one- 
half to three-fourths of an inch, on a very short 2-bracteolate 
peduncle. Ovary narrow, purple. Perianth-tube short, pale 
and subinflated at the rounded base, suddenly refracted, the 
ascending part at once dilating into a concave wide limb, 
one and quarter inches in diameter, with an obliquely 
truncated much dilated mouth that is contracted to a 
triangular throat, forming a fold with a deeply intruded 
border ; limb maroon-red outside and very dark purple-brown 
inside, upper margin slightly recurved, notched in the middle, 
lower split into three diverging long subulate tails four 
inches long, of a very dark red-brown colour, half inch broad 
at the base. Column short, capitate, 3-lobed, shortly stipi- 
tate ; lobes (stigmas) triangular, erect. Anthers six, linear, in 
three pairs ; adnate to the face of the lobes.—/. D. H. 
Fig. 1, Longitudinal section of perianth-tube, showing the intruded fold:— 
of the natural size ; 2, top of column :—magnified. 
