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lanceolate, acute at the base, acute or subacuminate at the apex, 

 minutely glandular- dentate, pennivenous, veins about 10 on each 

 side, and together with the midrib prominent below, villous-tomen- 

 tose above, covered with adpressed serecious hairs beneath, from 

 4^-6 inches long, by 1J--2 broad. Petioles 8-10 lines long. Pedicels 

 axillary, solitary, about twice the length of the petiole, villous- 

 tomentose, thickened towards the apex, with two small bracts a little 

 above the middle. Calyx free, deciduous, 5-parted nearly to the 

 base, lobes linear-lanceolate, very much acuminated, carinate, pubes- 

 cent externally, about an inch long. Corolla hypogynous, gamo- 

 petalous, tubular at the base, ventricosely campanulate above, about 3 

 inches long, pubescent externally. Tube with two plicatures on its 

 posterior inner face which close round the style, of a pale purple 

 colour, with a broad yellow stripe internally extending from the 

 bottom of the tube to the base of the middle lobe of the lower lip. 

 Limb 5-cleft, bilabiate, lobes of the upper lip 2, suborbicular, reflexed, 

 lower lip 3-lobed, lateral lobes broadly obovate, the middle one much 

 narrower, all of a rich purple colour. Stamens 5, the posterior very 

 rudimentary, the two lateral larger, villous, with their apices in- 

 curved, barren, the two anterior fertile, reaching about half way up 

 the tube of the corolla. Filaments glabrous, very much thickened, and 

 geniculate a little above the middle. Anthers elliptical, 1 -celled, 

 cohering, very villous on their anterior margins. Ovary free, gla- 

 brous, seated in a five-lobed annular disk, siliquose, 1 -celled, pla- 

 centae 2, parietal, formed by the introflexed margins of the carpels, 

 prominent, with the lamellse very much curved. Style filiform, per- 

 sistent, pubescent upwards. Stigma bilabiate, the upper lip obtuse, 

 abbreviated, the lower cuneate, truncate. Capsule, siliquose about 5 

 inches long, 1 -celled, 2-valved, with a loculicidal dehiscence. Seeds 

 numerous, oblong, acute at both ends, pendulous, small. Testa 

 brown, reticulated. 



CHIRITA WALKERI, Gardn. 



C. caule suffruticoso, ramoso, ramis teretibus, villoso- 

 tomentosis, foliis ternatim verticillatis, petiolatis, oblongo- 

 lanceolatis, basi acutis, apice acuminatis, minute glanduloso- 

 dentatis, utrinque tomentosis, pedunculis axillaribus, solitariis, 



