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nutantibus, pedunculo folio fere æquilongo, calyce imo coarctato, 
brevissime 5-dentato, cito irregulariter 2—8-fisso, corolla glabra, 
infundibuliformi-campanulata, limbo patente, sub-5-lobo : genita- 
libus corolla æquilongis, glabris. — In Andibus Quiteusibus— 
v. 8. in herb. Hooker. (Jameson, n. 200.) 
The drawing above quoted gives an excellent representation of 
this species. I observe, however, that when the corolla is fully 
grown, it is more campanulate, and the border is more pentangular 
than is there figured, where it is seen in its half plicated state 
before full expansion; in that state the plicatures of the sinus 
bear somewhat the appearance of intermediate teeth, but these in 
reality do not exist. The leaves are of a bright, shining green, 
one inch and three quarters long, three quarters of an inch broad, 
with a fleshy channelled petiole of two lines in length: above, the 
nervures are wholly immersed in the fleshy parenchyma; below, 
they are seen much spreading, and with the prominent midrib of 
a reddish colour. The peduncles, nearly as long as the leaves, 
are nodding, and are considerably thickened above: the calyx is 
fleshy, three lines long, with five short, obtuse, mucronate teeth, 
and its membranous margin is often split irregularly nearly to the 
base : the corolla appears of a dark orange or crimson hue, rather 
thick in its texture, smooth below, but slightly pubescent above 
outside: within the mouth it is smooth, but below it is pubes- 
cent: it is three quarters of an inch long, and measures three 
quarters of an inch across the mouth when fully expanded. The 
whole plant, especially in the shape and texture of the leaves, as 
well as in the appearance of the flowers, approaches very closely 
some species of the genus Lycioplesium ; but it is not spinose, and 
the structure of the calyx and corolla determines its place. 
(To be continued.) 
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