oblong-lanceolate or oblong-elliptic, somewhat triangular- 

 acuminate, firmly mucronate, base subacute, 3-4J- in. 

 long, |-1| in. wide, firmly coriaceous, green above, 

 glaucous-white owing to their close farinose tomentum 

 beneath, midrib narrow and slightly impressed above, 

 beneath prominent and gradually narrowed upwards 

 from a rather broad base; lateral nerves about 11 on 

 each side, very indistinct, emitted at a wide angle, 

 flexuous and interarching near the margin, petiole §-£ 

 in. long, wrinkled when dry. Inflorescence terminal, 

 4-7-flowered ; scales oblong-lanceolate, membranous, up 

 to f in. long ; bracts filiform, densely pubescent, half as 

 long as the pedicels which are 1-1^ in. long, shortly 

 pubescent and reddish. Calyx very small, lobed, 

 glandular-puberulous. Corolla lj-lf in. long, lf-2 in. 

 wide, white flushed with rose outside, pink-dotted behind 

 inside ; tube turbinate-campanulate, f in. long, glabrous 

 outside, glabrous or sparingly pubescent within ; lobes 

 wide-ovate, rounded, about f in. long and f in. wide. 

 Stamens 10, slightly exserted; filaments very finely 

 pubescent near the base ; anthers pale red, ^ in. long. 

 Ovary grooved, almost glabrous ; style exserted, quite 

 glabrous ; stigma truncate. Capsule curved, hard, f-1 

 in. long, ^ in. wide, closely verruculose. 



Fig. 1, upper part of leaf ; 2, pistil ; 3 and 4, stamens ; 5, transverse section 

 of ovary : — all enlarged. 



