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dried coriaceous, shining above in recent, green on both surfaces, 

 venation loose but inconspicuous, 6-11 J cm. long, 2-4Jcm. 

 broad ; midrib impressed above, more or less prominent beneath, 

 light green; petiole about J-lJcm. long, semiterete, narrowly 

 canaliculate in front ; leaf-bud terminal, naked, glutinose (taste 

 sweet). Flowers axillary, 1^3-fasciculated, pedicellate, shorter 

 than the leaves, subpendulous and turned laterally, about 2jcm. 

 long; pedicils uniflorous, about 2— 2f cm. long, green, glabrous, 

 gracile but obconically enlarged towards the receptacle, laterally 

 compressed below, ebracteate. Calyx continued to the recep- 



tacle, regular, very deeply 5— parted, glabrous, green, herba- 

 ceous, thickish, persistent, about 4mm. long; segments erect or 

 nearly erect-patent, subcarinate dorsally, somewhat concave 

 within, ovate or deltoid-ovate, acuminato-acute, very minutely 

 subglanduloso-serrulate under lens, 1-nerved. Corolla hypo- 

 gynous, subinfundibuliform-campanulated, purplish, glabrous 

 but the tube very thinly pilose with white delicate deciduous 

 hairs except the lower portion internally, deciduous; tube cam- 

 panulato-tubular, gradually enlarged above, very slightly con- 

 tracted above the base, 5-ridged (the furrowed portion alternate 

 to the calyx-segments), straight or hardly curved downwards, 

 subblotched with purple within except the base which is a deep 

 purple ; limb subregular but hardly bilabiate, lobes 5, equal in 

 length, patent then reflexed (much so in those of the lower lip), 

 shorter than the tube, ovato-elliptical, ovato-oblong, or ellip- 

 tical-oblong, obtuse with a cuspidate point at the apex, irregu- 

 larly maculate with purple internally, about 1 cm. long. Sta- 

 mens 4, didynamous, distant, inserted on the middle portion of 

 the tube, exserted but slightly shorter than the corolla-lobes, 

 recurved, the posterior one none ; filament filiform, glabrous ; 

 anther dorsifixed, introrse, reniform-bilobate, divaricate, cells 

 oblong ; pollen pale. Ovary superior, solitary, ovoid, gla- 

 brous, smooth, nearly as long as the calyx, purplish, 6-8- 

 celled, thickly walled, about 3 \ mm. long, secreted a honey 

 juice from its base ; ovules pendulous, solitary, anatropoUs ; 

 style terminal, exserted, lower than the stamens, narrow, 

 terete, glabrous, purpurascent, the basal portion persistent ; 



