it in his stove collection at West Hill, Putney, in July, 1909. 
Col. Beddome informs us that this /acobinia does not flower 
with him when grown as a large plant under ordinary 
stove conditions. But young succulent cuttings, rooted in: 
the spring in the propagating frame, planted in small pots 
in a mixture of leaf-mould, loam, sand and_pea-shaped 
crocks, and slightly fed with fertilizer, have flowered freely 
in his collection when kept on shelves quite close to the 
glass. 
Descriprion.—VL/erb ; uniformly softly velvety pubescent ; 
stems lony and prostrate; flowering brancheserect. Leaves 
petioled, opposite, ovate, obtuse, base rounded or cuneately 
rounded, #-24 in. long, 4-114 in. wide; petiole 4-1} in. 
long. Cymes peduncled, small, 5-10-flowered or by sup- 
pression 1-flowered; bracts spathulate-obovate, obtuse, 
about 4 in. long, 3 in. wide; bracteoles linear-lanceolate, 
acuminate, pubescent and ciliate, 2-3 lin. long; flowers 
sessile. Calyx tube about 1 lin. long, nearly hemispheric ; 
lobes about 2 lin. long, narrowly lanceolate, very acute, 
glabrous outside, subciliate, clothed within with minute 
hairs. Corolla 2-lipped, pubescent outside, glabrous within, 
bright scarlet; tube 14 in. long, slightly curved, slender 
below, widened upwards and about + in. across at the top ; 
upper lip 5 lin. long, ovate, slightly emarginate; lower lip 
5 lin. long, oblong, subtruncately 3-toothed. Stamens 2, 
about as long as the corolla, adnate to the middle of the 
tube ; filaments pubescent ; anther cells oblong, one situated 
higher than the other. Disk very thick, cup-shaped, 
yellowish, Ovary slightly pubescent at the apex; style 
filiform, glabrous; stigma minutely 2-lobed. 
Fig. 1, flowering cyme, with corolla removed ; 2, calyx and base of style; 
3, calyx, partly removed, to show di -4 5 i tion of 
corolla-tube :—al/ enlarged. “seo ater Maat ae eee iti 
