and its smaller, more acnte calyx-teeth. With care and 
under stove conditions C. Bakeri may be grown into a 
_ very decorative plant. 
Descriprion.—Shrub, 4 ft. high; young branches pubes- 
cent. Leaves oblong- or obovate-elliptic, sharply almost 
caudately acuminate, base rounded or slightly cuneate, 
33-8 in. long, 2-4 in. wide, margin in anterior half coarsely 
repandly toothed, in the basal half subentire or entire, thinly 
chartaceous, glabrous except on the nerves on both faces, 
nerves puberulous or sometimes sparingly pilose beneath, 
lateral arching, raised beneath, about 8 on each side, con- 
nected by almost parallel veins; petiole 2-1 in. long, 
verrucose, somewhat hairy. Cymes axillary, peduncled, 
densely many-flowered, about 5 in, across; peduncles 
2-6 in. long, glabrous or sparingly puberulous; bracts and 
bracteoles _linear-subulate, I-13 lin. long, puberulous. 
Flowers white. Calyz-tuhe rather deeply campanulate, 
14 lin. long, 1 lin. wide, glabrous; teeth triangular, some- 
what blunt, barely 1 lin, long, glabrous, Corolla-tube 
slender, 1}~1} in. long, glabrous outside; lobes spreading, 
elliptic or oblong-elliptic, rounded at the tip, +1 in. long, 
$-% in. wide, glabrous. Filaments long, exserted 2 in., 
erect, at length recurved, glabrous: anthers barely 1 lin. 
long. Style very slender, exserted % in., glabrous, Fruit 
black, obovoid, 2 in. long, glabrous, the base surrounded by 
the accrescent, fleshy, whitish calyx. 
Fig. 1, calyx and pistil; 2 and 3, anthers; 4, ovary; 5, fruiting eyme- 
6, vertical section of fruit i—all enlarg Ab Se ing cyme ; 
ed except 5, which is of natural size, 
