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inner appendages ; corolla red, its tube hardly reaching beyond 

 the calyx, its lobes glabrous, about equal in length to the tube, 

 orbicular- or cordate-rliomboid ; coronula divided into numerous 

 linear- cr spaiular-elliptic and glabrous segments ; stamens fixed 

 above middle of the corolla-tube, perfectly enclosed; anthers 

 disconnected ; pistil glabrous, the stigma nearly as long as the 

 style, ovate-conical, annular-turgid at the base, bi-mucronulate at 

 the apex. 



On Russell's River, in forests of Agathis Palmersto7ii ; Stephen 

 Johnson. 



Branchlets rather robust, somewhat laxly spreading, their 

 indument greyish. Leaves of firm texture, to 5 inches long, to 

 2 broad, the primary venules beneath prominent. Cymes seldom 

 above i inch long, usually paired when axil]ar)^ Bracteoles 

 narrow and pointed. Flowers ornamental, probably fragrant. 

 Calyx about ^ inch long, its form unusual within the genus. 

 Tube of the corolla pubescent outside, much narrowed down- 

 ward, constricted at its termination ; lobes amply overlapping 

 each other. Segments of the five coronular lobes fascicled in 

 several rows. Filaments very short. Anthers yellowish, glabrous, 

 gradually pointed, minutely bi-lobed at the base, about one- 

 tenth inch long. Fruit as yet not obtained ; nevertheless the 

 place of the plant in the genus, to which it has been allotted, 

 seems hardly doubtful, though the position of the anthers is 

 abnormal, so that a generic division or perhaps full genus 

 (Endostemon) might be constituted for placing this plant 

 systematically. The unappendiculate calyx and the enclosed 

 anthers pollen-bearing to the base would bring this plant to 

 Melodious, as a species of which I have distributed it ; but the 

 venulation of the leaves does not accord, and the coronule is 

 more developed. The generic position can finally be settled 

 only when the fruit shall have been discovered. 



Nearest to Wtightia coccinea in regard to the colour of the 

 corolla, but that congener differs already in glabrous somewhat 

 narrower and more gradually acuminated leaves, much larger and 

 less numerous flowers, blunt calyx-lobes considerably exceeded 

 by the corolla-tube, and only slightly divided coronular lobes. 

 The general aspect of the plant is like that of W. tmcioria, which 

 is however at once distinguished by frequent want of vestiture, 

 by a white corolla with much narrower and longer lobes, also by 

 a proportionately shorter tube. 



This species of a medicinal genus of plants is offered from here 

 as a floral homage to the clinical Professor Baccelli, in com- 

 memoration of the leading part taken by this great pathologist in 

 the recent International Medical Congress of Berlin, and further 

 for also phytologic felicitation in his so worthily being called to the 

 high presidental office of the forthcoming universal gathering in 

 . Rome. 



