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flowered in a stove of the Royal Gardens, Kew, in July 

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Descr. — A glabrous, leafy shrub ; branches erect, acutely 

 four-angled. Leaves four to six inches long, ovate or 

 oblong, obtusely acuminate, base acute, very dark red- 

 purple and shining above, pale green, tinged with purple 

 beneath ; nerves about eight on each side, purple beneath,-; 

 petiole short. Panicles six inches long, erect, spiciform ; 

 branches very short, many- and dense-flowered ; pedicels 

 shorter than the calyx ; bracts subulate. Calyx one-sixth 

 of an inch long, segments lanceolate. Corolla-tube an inch 

 long, straight, slender, white ; lobes rather shorter than 

 the tube, linear-oblong, obtuse, white, rose-coloured at 

 the base, ciliate, two upper erect, three lower deflexed. 

 Anthers exserted, base rounded, ecalcarate. Dish short, 

 tubular. Ovary glabrous, narrowed into a slender style; 

 stigmas minute. — /. D. H. 



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Fig. 1, bracts, calyx, style and stigma ; 2, bui laid open ; 3, dorsal view of 

 stamen ; 4, disk and ovary : — all enlarged. 



