Uroskinnera spectabilis Lindley in Gard. Chron. 
(1857) 36—Hooker in Bot. Mag. 88 (1857) t. 5009— 
Morren Belg. Hort. 7 (1857) 238—Lemaire Ill. Hort. 
5 (1858) 83—Galeotti in Journ. Hort. Prat., n.s. 1 (1857) 
77, 244—Lemaire in Rev. Hort. (1858) 85— Lemaire in 
Fl]. Serres, ser. 2, 4 (1861) t. 1433—Bois Dict. Hort. 2 
(1898-99) 1182—-Nieuwenhuis in Ann. Jard. Bot. Bui- 
tenzorg 21 (1907) t. 29, f. 75. 
Stout shrub up to five feet in height. Leaves long- 
petiolate, elliptic-ovate, dentate, the teeth not apiculate, 
subacute, cuneate at the base, chartaceous, hispidulous 
and dark green above, sericeous and grey-green beneath, 
6-16 (mostly 12-16) em. long, 4-10 (mostly 6-10) em. 
wide. Petioles densely hirsute, 1.5—5 (mostly 8-5) em. 
long. Inflorescence a short, dense, many-flowered raceme 
about 6 ecm. long. Pedicels 1-2 mm. long, very densely 
white villous-hirsute. Bracts linear, very hairy, 1-38 mm. 
long. Flowers up to 4 em. long, 1.5-2 cm. wide at the 
tip when expanded. Calyx 4-dentate, cup-shaped; the 
cup 4.5 mm. long, densely white-hirsute, the hairs about 
0.8 mm. long; the teeth linear, 1.8—-2 mm. long. Corolla 
violet-purple, infundibuliform, glabrous externally, 5- 
lobate, 2-lipped; the lobes triangular, subacute, subequal, 
sparsely glandular-lepidote within. Fertile stamens four, 
glabrous; the longer two about 1.7 cm. in length, in- 
serted 15 mm. from the base of the corolla tube; the 
shorter two about 1.2 cm. long; locules of the anthers 
divergent; staminodium terete, clavate, glandular-lepi- 
dote, 1.2 cm. long, inserted 9 mm. from the base of the 
corolla tube, not equaling the stamens. Style elongate, 
flattened, linear-clavate in outline, abruptly rounded at 
the apex, glabrous, 2.6 cm. long, persisting in fruit; stig- 
ma deeply bifid, the two lobes horn-like, strongly diver- 
gent. Ovary glabrous, subglobose, measuring about 1.5 
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