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Stipules none, except a thick fleshy margin, which connects 
the petioles. Cymes panicled, large, leafy at the base; branches 
dichotomous, many-flowered. Flowers large, pendulous, 
greenish, mixed with purple. Calyx cylindrical, inflated, 
4-cleft at the apex, lobes about i the length of the tube, 
united by their edges into a 4-sided conical point. Corolla 
marcescent, tubular, 4-cleft, nearly twice the length of the 
calyx; segments acute; tube puckered round the germen, 
presenting, when the calyx is removed, the appearance of a 
head and neck; limb purple. Stamens 8, shorter than the 
corolla; filaments slender, subulate, attached to the neck-part 
of the corolla; anthers linear. Pistils: germens 4, substipitate, 
each furnished at the base with a compressed, nearly square 
gland. Styles the length of the stamens; stigmas simple. 
Capsules 4, 1-celled, 1-valved, many-seeded. Seeds borne on 
the inflexed margin of the valves. I have not seen ripe seeds. 
I do not know whether this (which indeed has no Tamul 
name) is truly a native* of India; if not, it is now naturalized 
and found extensively distributed. It seems to prefer a moist, 
rather rich soil, and flowers during the cool season. The 
drawing was taken from a plant which flowered in my garden, 
and which I found apparently in a wild state about a year 
before, and transferred to its present place. There was 
no attention paid to it as to watering, or cultivation. It 
was brought from a moist shady situation, and planted in 
a dry, rather exposed one, and there produced the large 
handsome panicle of flowers which is represented on a 
greatly reduced scale. 'The separate flower is about the 
natural size—the whole plant was four feet high. Two other 
larger plants blossomed at the same time; and a gentleman 
tells me he has plants in his garden considerably larger than 
mine. In two of my plants the flowering-stem is producing 
fresh shoots. In the other I suspect it will die. ^ 
SuprpL Tas. XXXI. Fig. 1, Flower. Fig. 2, The same 
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* [t is said to be à native of the Moluccas. 
