Dxscr. A shrub six to eight feet high, with long slender 
sarmentose branches, which, as well as the petioles and leaves 
beneath, especially on the nerves and racemes, are sparsely 
strigose with rigid bristles. Leaves two to three inches long, 
shortly petioled, ovate or oblong-ovate, acuminate, serrulate | 
or almost entire, coriaceous, bright green and shining above, 
with impressed nerves, paler beneath with very prominent 
reticulated nerves; old leaves highly coloured, claret-brown, 
rarely deep blood-red; petioles one-quarter inch long. 
Racemes axillary, two by eight inches, 8—10-flowered ; rachis 
and peduncle hispid ; bracts small shorter than the pedicels, 
which are one-quarter inch long, lanceolate, acute, green. 
Flowers about one-third inch long, inclined. Calyzx-tube 
broad, green, with the base intruded and 5-lobed; teeth 
broadly triangular, acute, scarlet. Corolla conical, white ; 
teeth small, suberect. Filaments curved, puberulous ; 
anthers oblong, not spurred behind, pores oblong, anticous. 
Ovary pilose at the top. uit one-third inch in diameter, 
subglobose, 5-lobed, white, waxy, fleshy, with 5 crimson 
spots on the crown.—J. D. H. 
Fig. 1, Flower; 2, stamen; 3, ovary :—all magnified. 
