drical, with distinct angles, hairs on the inside reflected, and occupying — 
the five angles; limb erect. Stamens subexserted, filaments nearly 
glabrous, erect, simple at the apex. Style scarcely deflected, straight 
below the stzgma. 
LoruosPermum. Calyx herbaceous, five-parted, segments promi- 
nent at the edges and spreading at the apices even in the youngest 
state of the bud. Corolla, tube campanulate, turgid below, hairs on the 
inside erect, and occupying two dense lines ; limb spreading. Stamens 
included, filaments deflected, glandular towards the anthers, with a tuber- 
cle or short blunt branch at the apex. Style deflected, bent to a right 
angle immediately below the stigma. 
Descr. Stems filiform, branched, twining, subcylindrical, firm, pur- 
ple, sparingly covered with minute, glandular hairs. Leaves (fully 
three inches long, nearly as much broad) alternate, petioled, rounded 
and cordate at the base, acuminate, lobed, dentate, strongly nerved, 
when young of a dark greenish purple, when older bright green above, 
below pale and at length with a purple tinge, sparingly covered with 
short, glandular pubescence on both surfaces; nerves prominent below, 
channelled above; Petioles about as long as the leaf beyond the sinus, 
twining, channelled above. Peduncles axillary, solitary, pendulous, 
filiform, purple, longer than the leaves, flexuose and spirally twisted, 
when young glanduloso-pubescent, afterwards nearly glabrous, shining. 
Flower-buds ovate. Flowers pendulous. Calyx (nearly one inch long, 
tather more across,) campanulate, spreading from the base, five-clett, 
shining, deep purple, reticulated, externally slightly glanduloso-pubescent, 
and afterwards nearly glabrous on the inner surface, pretty copiously 
covered with rather long, glandular pubescence ; lobes ovate, acute, in 
the bud closely imbricated, after expansion slightly connivent, and later 
Somewhat spreading at the apices. Corolla twice as long as the calyx, 
of much deeper, duller purple than it, covered externally with glandular 
pubescence ; tube clavato-cylindrical, unequally five-sided, dilated at its 
base where it encloses the germen, internally towards its base, uniformly 
and rather densely 'covered with blunt, white, inverted, simple pubes- 
cence, which higher in the tube is nearly confined to the longitudinal 
angles, corresponding to the external depressions, and is nearly want- 
ing on the uppermost of these ; Zim glabrous wit in, and externally less 
pubescent than the tube, of five, elliptical, blunt, erect lobes, of which 
two upper are rather the shortest and broadest, the lowest is nar- 
rowest and rather the longest. Stamens subequal, rather longer than 
the tube; filaments straight, purple, glabrous, shining and filiform 
above, near their base dilated somewhat and flattened, paler and covered 
with inverted hairs similar to those on the inside of the tube to which 
they adhere (at the same time becoming smooth) as it passes round the 
germen ; anthers smooth, dark violet-coloured, lobes elliptical, divari- 
cated, bursting along their outer edges ; pollen white, granules minute, 
oblong. There is a minute, abortive stamen between the bases of the 
two upper perfect ones. Stigma of two minute, erect, white lobes. 
filiform, scarcely deflected, rather longer than the stamens, gla- 
_  brous, or with a very few scattered hairs towards the base. Germen 
_ green, ovate, compressed, glanduloso-pubescent, placed obliquely upon 
= 8 smooth, fleshy disk. Ovules very numerous, globular, on podosperms 
as long asthemselves. Graham. 
= ‘Fig. 1. Corolla, removed from the Calyx. 2, Stamen. 3. Pistil. 
