212 TRANSACTIONS OF THE [Sess. lxixi 



tawny-olive mat with a grooved midrib, the groove being 

 more or less filled with withered floccose hairs and glands, 

 primar}^ veins about IG pairs slightly sulcate, leaf -surf ace 

 elsewhere flat veinless at first sight glabrous but marked 

 by the vestiges of the floccose hairs and glands which have 

 fallen : under surface 3'ellowish bufi' with the midrib and 

 primar}^ veins raised and slightly reddening, network of 

 the veinlets sometimes more or less prominent everywhere 

 punctulate with the red bases of glands (or hairs) ; petiole 

 thickish about 2 cm. long grooved above more or less 

 clad by a dirty grey stratum of withered floccose hairs, 

 commonly glabrescent. Flowers in a short racemose-umbel 

 about 8 in each inflorescence with a rufous floccose rhachis 

 scarcely 1 cm. long ; fertile bracts chestnut-brown broadly 

 oblong spathulate about 2-5 cm. long and 1"5 cm. broad 

 rounded or subtruncate at the base often mucronate ruf- 

 ously ciliate, the central part somewhat coriaceous and girt 

 by a somewhat membranous ciliate marginal area, on the 

 inside (except in the lower half) and outside densely pilose 

 sericeous ; bracteoles thread-like orange-coloured shorter 

 than the pedicels covered with adpressed hairs ; pedicels 

 stout as much as 8 mm. long, often shorter, oblique at the 

 apex, clad with many red both long- and short-stalked glands 

 and fewer greasy floccose hairs. Calyx minute cupular 

 about 1'5 cm. long cut almost to the base into 5 fleshy 

 broadly ovate ; lobes everywhere on tlie outside red gland- 

 ular and abundantl}^ covered by greasy red floccose hairs, 

 margin of the lobes glandulai- ciliate. Corolla pink 

 tubular-campanulate 4'5 cm. long often less (about 3'5 cm.), 

 outside at the base puberulous and sprinkled with glands 

 on the veins higlier up, inside puberulous and spotted 

 dark red on the back without a blotch, base retuse and 

 5-gibbous, 5-lobed ; lobes rounded emarginate subcrenulate 

 about I'H cm. long and 25 cm. broad in the larger flowers. 

 Stamens 10 unequal, in tlie larger flowers the longer ones 

 about 3 cm. long shortei- about 2 cm.; anthers about 2 mm. 

 long ; filaments expanded towards the base and from there 

 to beyond the middle densely pubescent but eglandular. 

 Disk glabrous. Cynaeceum in the larger flowers about 

 3"8 cm. long; ovary conoid slightly grooved blackening 

 about (') mm. long and 3 mm. in diameter den.sely floccose 



