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sen bristly with hairs; young branchlets already elongating 
ime of flowering, bristly. a elliptic or slightly 
deere -elliptic, a little narrowed to an obtuse base, rounded 
to an obtuse callous mucro at the asad 5-10 cm. long, 2-4 cm. 
broad, rigidly coriaceous, bristly ciliate when young, green on 
both sides, with reddish nerves when young, densely lepidote 
but soon becoming glabrous above, lepidote below, the scales 
very dense and nearly contiguous with a broad fringe, the 
epidermis minutely papillous between the scales; midrib im- 
pressed above, prominent beneath, lepidote ; lateral nerves 
slender, about 8 on each side of the midrib, fairly distinct on 
the lower surface; petioles 0.5-1.3 cm. long, ciliate, closely 
lepidote, grooved on the upper side. Inflorescence about 4- 
flowered, the pedicels arising from about the same level; bud- 
scales broadly rounded and fringed with soft white ‘hairs ; 
pedicels about 1 cm. long, densely lepidote. Calyx oblique, 
very short, not or scarcely lobed, he a dense fringe of long 
hairs. Corolla funnel-shaped, 6 cm. long, white, spotted with 
red inside the adaxial lobe, which has a yellow blotch at the 
base on each side; tube flushed with pink outside, lepidote 
and softly pubescent outside; lobes 5, emer ovate, a little 
apiculate, lepidote towards the middle outside. Stamens 10, 
unequal, exserted; filaments pubescent in their lower half; 
anthers 5 mm. long. Ovary 6-celled, lepidote; style rather 
slender, overtopping the corolla, lepidote in its lower two-thirds, 
crowned by a disk-like stigma. Capsule 6-celled, broad, about 
2 cm. long, lepidote (after Watt’s drawing). 
Assam. Manipur: Sirhoifurar, 6000-7500 ft., fls. rrth April 
1882, G. Watt, 6401 (type) 
This was named in manuscript by Sir George Watt, who 
sent seeds of the species to Kew in January 1882. The seedlings 
however, eventually all died off. It is named after Mrs John- 
Folia elliptica, vel leviter obovato- eee ad basin obtusum paullo angustata, 
ronata, 5-10 cm. longa, 2-4 cm . lata, rigide 
nervi laterales graciles, utrinsecus circiter 8, infra satis distincti; petioli 0.5-1.3 
cm. longi, ciliati, crebre lepidoti, supra canaliculati. Inflorescentia terminalis, 
tis ; squamae gemmarum floriferarum late 
lli circiter 1 cm. longi, dense 
discif 
Watt icon.). 
