seems to be widely spread in gardens, if one may judge 
by the number of specimens submitted for identification 
in each succeeding year. It can be increased by cuttings 
in early autumn. The only species in gardens with which 
it is likely to be confused is the well-known L. involucrata, 
Banks, which has similarly striking involucres. The 
latter is, however, easily distinguished by its thinner, 
glabrous or nearly glabrous leaves, and its longer stamens, 
and it is as arule in herbaria not in gardens that any 
serious difficulty is experienced in separating the two. 
The material for our plate was supplied by a plant which 
has long been in cultivation at Kew. 
DESCRIPTION.—Shrub, erect; branches long, at times 
up to 15 ft. long, twigs angular, when young sparingly 
puberulous. Leaves lanceolate or ovate-lanceolate, rather 
acute or shortly mucronate, base rounded or truncate, 
13-33 in. long, 3-1 in. wide, entire, thinly papery, 
puberulous on the nerves above, softly pubescent 
underneath, reticulately veined, the lateral nerves 
curved, ascending, 5-6 on each side; petioles 4 in. long, 
sparingly puberulous. Flowers geminate, sessile between 
two bracts in a long-peduncled involucre; peduncles 
#1 in. long, glabrous. Bracts opposite, distinct, ovate 
or ovate-elliptic, blunt-tipped, in flower about 2 in. long 
and } in. across, reticulate outside and sparingly pilose, 
beset with stalked glands within and on the margin, at 
first reddish-green, in fruit purple and _ accrescent; 
bracteoles small. Calyx obsolete. Corolla funnel- 
shaped, saccate at the base, reddish-yellow outside, 
yellow within; tube 4-2 in. long, about + in. wide, 
sparingly hairy outside; limb 5-lobed, lobes spreading, 
widely ovate-rounded, } in. across. Stamens 5, inserted 
above the middle of the tube; anthers hardly exserted, 
mucronate. Ovary glabrous; style stout; stigma capi- 
tate, shortly exserted. Berry black. 
Fig. 1, bract and two flowers; 2, ovaries ; 8, section of corolla; 4 and 5, 
anthers ; 6, style and stigma :—all enlarged. 
