ta 
clothed with numerous tawny glands with a few blackish 
glands intermixed ; midrib straw-coloured, finely pube- 
rulous above, raised beneath and glandular, but without 
hairs, gradually tapering from base to apex; lateral 
nerves about 12 on each side of the midrib which they 
leave at an angle of 45°, broad and distinct above and 
looping within the margin, very indistinct beneath; 
petiole }—} in. long, glandular. Flowers terminal, sub- 
umbellate; truss usually 5-flowered; bud-scales brown 
when dry, ovate or oblong-ovate, slightly apiculate, {1 
in. long, }-+ in. wide, ciliolate, Sparingly glandular- 
lepidote outside; pedicels 2—2 in, long, rather slender, 
partially clothed with sessile glands. Calyx very short 
or almost obsolete, usually undulate, lepidote. Corolla 
carmine, wide funnel-shaped ; tube 2 in. long, sparingly | 
lepidote outside, finely puberulous within; lobes 5, ovate 
or oblong-ovate, rounded at the tip, + in. long, 2 in. wide, 
glabrous. Stamens 10, exserted, unequal; filaments up 
to 1 in. long, villous for a short space just above the 
base; anthers yellowish, yz in. long. Ovary 5-celled, 
oblong, }; in. long, densely lepidote, shortly pubescent at 
base and apex; style far exserted, longer than the 
stamens, curved, 1-1} in. long, purple, glabrous ; stigma 
capitate, dark-purple. Jruit cylindric, § in. long, } in. 
wide, lepidote, tipped by the persistent style. 
: Fig. i tip of leaf ; 9. calyx: and istil: 3 scales tr ws a's 
tamens; 6, transverse séction of vies —all enlarged. ee ee 
