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with black juice filling the corolla-tube. Calyx S-sepaleil, rounded-obtuse 

 at b ise, 6-13 mm. long, glabrous but minutely ciliated, green; sepals 

 imbricated, somewhat unequal, erect, narrowly ovate, ovato-lanceolate, or 

 narrowly oblong, obtuse or acutish, entire, tliickish below, midrib more or 

 less prominent dorsallj', veinlets irregularly anastomosing, with free extreme 

 venules. Corolla hypocraterimorphous, snbcarnose ; tube exserted, cylindrical, 

 slightly swollen at the base, 11-13 mm. long, 6-7 mm. across, glabrous and 

 longitudinally 5-sulcate below externally, marked with longitudinally pilose 

 lines 5 above and 10 below internally ; lobes 5, arcuato-patent, longer 

 than the tube, angustato-lanceolate to ovato-lanceolate, slightly falcate, 

 obtuse or acutish, entire and laxly ciliolate, minutely auriculate on one side 

 at the base, sinistrorsely convolute in pra3floration, 17-30 mm. long, 6-9 mm. 

 wide, subtrinerved below, midrib slender, veinlets delicate and irregularly 

 anastomosing. Genitals included, glabrous, about 7-8 nun. long. Staminal 

 corona 5, narr.jwly deltoid, erect, flattened and longitudinally subangulate 

 in centre ab )ve dorsally, almost entirely adnate to the column (connate 

 filaments) and shorter than it and the obtuse tips slightly free, black when 

 drv. Colunm thick, .5-gonous ; anthers terminal, free, membranes sur- 

 roimding the stigma, oblong-elliptical or narrowly oblong, obtuse, concave, 

 about 3-4 mm. long, slightly exceeding the stigma ; poliinia small, about 

 4 mm. long, obovato-oblong, rounded at the toj), erect, very shortly pedicel- 

 late ; corpuscle shorter than poliinia, ovato-deltoid, acute. St^'le crowned 

 on the ovaries, short, thick, close to the column ; stigma thicker than 

 the style, clavato-obovate, semisjiluerical one-half above, shortly bilobed at 

 the to}). Ovaries 2, collectively ovato-oval or C(Uiico-oval and obtuse, 

 glabrous, small, about 2 mm. long, many-ovuled, each slightly compressed 

 dorsally (semiorbicular in cross section) ; ovules minute, several-seriate, 

 pendulous, ob avato-elliptical or elliptical, with a short funicle ; placenta 

 thickish. Follicles 2, strongly divaricate, often with persistent calyx, 

 elongatedly horn-shaped, gradually attenuated above, straight, glabrous, 

 viridescent, about 10-16 cm. lung, l|-2cm. across, many-seeded, with 

 coriaceous carpel ; pedicel 2-4 cm. long. Seeds pendulous, numerous, im- 

 bricated, compressed, ovate, narrowly winged on margin, umber, comose 

 with many and long sericeous hairs, glabrous, 12-14 mm. long; albumen 

 ovate ; embryo straight, cotyledons flat, elliptical, rounded at the apex and 

 bise, veined, caulicle much shorter than the cotyledon. Flowers in May- 

 June. 



Hal). Prov. Tos.\: Godaisan in Ko^hi {T. JIukiaol ]\[ay-June 1893), 

 Sakawa {T. MaUnol Nov. 1892), Mt. Yokogura (7; Malclnol 1892), 



