supported on cylindrical, curved, furrowed footstalks, which 
conceal within their axils a few of the minute, subulate, 
fleshy bodies, which belong to the family of AscueriapEs, 
Peduncles axillary, solitary, thickish, round, shorter than 
the petioles, one or two-flowered. Flowers large, inodor- 
ous, of a purple colour, speckled with green, on slender, 
half-inch long, partial peduncles, each of which has at its 
base one or two small, linear, purplish bracteas. Corolla 
deeply five-cleft, closely pressed to the enlarged base of 
the corolla ; lacinie spreading, linear -subulate. Corolla 
nearly an inch and a half long ; tube club-shaped, curved, 
much swelled and yventricose at the base, widening again 
at the upper end into the large, round, slightly depressed, 
five-cleft border; lacinie tongue-shaped, acute, bent in- 
bene | and connected by their apices, having between 
them large and wide interstices ; their sides are bent back- 
wards so as to become contiguous, and the margins furnish- 
ed with a row of long, black, shining, straight, loose and 
vacillating hairs ; the inside of the border is dark purple. 
Organs of Fructification very small, concealed in the bot- 
tom of the corolla, and surrounded with a double corona ; 
the outer one five-cleft, or, rather, ten-cleft, in consequence 
of the five lobes, which are linear-subulate, and converge 
over the inner corona, being deeply two-cleft ; inner corona 
five-cleft, lobes subulate, rather obtuse, undivided, oppo 
site to those of the outer corona. Anthers fleshy, clavate, 
naked, bilocular ; the cells being large, membrane-mar- 
gined. ~Pollen-masses ovate, obtuse, erect, connected in 
pairs by means of a very short pedicel to the apex of a small, 
brown, sulcate corpusculum. Stigma indistinctly five-cor- 
nered, depressed, with an obscurely two -lobed, cent 
prominence. “Wari. MSS. , 3 
The Company’s Botanic Garden of Calcutta is indebted 
to the Venerable Archdeacon Hawrayye of Bombay for this 
ornamental plant, which is one of the most elegant of the 
Genus to which it belongs. It was_ discovered on the 
N ilghiry range, and forwarded to the garden in 1824; where 
it blossoms profusely in the beginning of every year. A 
living plant was brought to England by Dr. Waxiicu, ™ 
1828, which was presented by the Hon. Court of Directors 
of the East India Company to His Majesty’s garden @ 
Kew, where it is now in full flower. 
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_ Fig. 1. Calyx and, Pistil. 2. The double Corona Staminea. 3. ‘The inne? 
ditto. 4. Portion of the outer and inner Crown, with two Pollen-masses;?™ — 
the angular Stigma. 5. Pollen-masses. 6. Pistils—Magnified. 
