SPECTTLARIA. 
577 
simple brandies eadi similarly crowned with 1., round smooth 
and even, with a pale ash-cold, bark, perfectly woody and 
naked below the 1., while young pubescent, |-1 in. in diam. 
L. 1-2 ft. long, 3-5 or G in. broad, thin soft and membra- 
nous, light apple-gr., mostly more or less purplish, paler but 
not whitish beneath, the midrib pale straw-col. subsucculent 
and with the nerves almost hirsute beneath. Panicle from the 
centre of the terminal tufts of 1., 1^-3 ft. long, naked or inconspi- 
cuously leafy, subremotely branched and flowered, the branches 
widely straightly and stiffly divaricate 1-3-fl. FI. large but 
not very conspicuous, 1^-2 in. long, erect not cernuous, scent- 
less. Cal. large pubescent or furry like the whole panicle, 
tube 5-angular strongly 10-ribbed obconic ; lobes permanently 
erect, twice as long as the tube yet only reaching a little beyond 
the top of the cor.-tube and only half the length of the cor., the 
whole of a dull dark brownish gr. or purple ; the sinuses sim- 
ple exappendiculate. Cor. dull oclire-y. tinged tipped or 
streaked with dull red giving it somewhat of a purpurascent 
orange or lateritious tint like Canarina Campanula L. or Iso- 
plexis Sceptrum (L.) ; tube a little shorter than the cal. -lobes 
narrow slender straight cylindric strongly ribbed, a little swol- 
len at the base ; lobes 1 in. long in. broad, linear subcanalicu- 
late, rather longer than and reflexed between the cal. -lobes, but 
reaching about an inch beyond their tips. Anth. linear straight 
cuspidate, about half the length of the cor. -lobes and rather 
shorter than their own free very slender fil., which are quite 
smooth and dilated at the base. Stigma very large deeply 5- 
cleft, the divisions \ in. long spreading or revolute, the style 
exserted ^ in. beyond the cor.-tube : the whole, like the cor. 
outwardly, pubescent. Caps., like those of M. aurea , bursting 
by transverse slits between the nerves or ribs, but semiglobose 
rather than obconic. Seeds minute (1 mill, long, \ mill, 
broad) oblong compressed tawny or yellowish-brown not shi- 
ning but minutety rough. 
Though not equalling M. aurea in the brilliancy and beauty 
of its fl., M. Wollastoni is in stature and in foliage a truly 
noble pi. 
The beautiful figure of it in BM. t. 5G0G with pale greenish-y. 
fl., recals the poet’s warning u Nimium ne crede colori ” in the 
case of cult. pi. Nothing like it in this respect has occurred in 
Mad. 
5. Speculahia Heist. 
1. S. falcata (Ten.). 
More or less scabrous rarely smooth ; st. slender virgate 
mostly simple sometimes slenderly and shortly branched down- 
