Leaves oblong cordate, sometimes far acuminate, some- 
times shortly and abruptly so, with a dense dry hardish_ 
. pubescence on both sides, the largest are about 5 inches 
lane and from 2 to 3 broad; reticulately veined and 
wrinkled underneath, with many pale varicose nerves: 
petioles shaggy, several times shorter than the blade. Pe- 
duncles solitary, axillary, longer than the leaf, filiform, and 
rather hard, roughly pubescent, divaricate, divided up- 
wards into cymes of from 3 to 20 flowers; pedicles 3 times 
shorter than these, bibracteate, the two bractes at the 
primary divisions leaflike and nearly equal to the pedicles, 
the others small and subulate. Calyx roughly pubescent, 
tubularly convolute below, above campanulately rotate, 
several times shorter than the corolla, leaflets rhomboidally 
lanceolate, pointed. Corolla turbinately rotate, slightly 
5-cornered, about an inch and half over, of a pale violet- 
purple colour, white in the disk and tube, marked with five 
deeper stellate folds, which are roughly pubescent at their 
under side; ¢ube conical, shorter than the calyx. Fila- 
‘ments rising above the tube, equal, fascicled, white, and 
for the greater part beset with glandular hairs: anthers 
cream-coloured, linearly sagittate, opening outwards. Ger- 
men white, pyramidal, smooth in our specimen (not pubes- 
cent, as it is described and figured in the Paradisus Lon- 
dinensis), placed on a fleshy cupular yellow basement. 
Style white: stigmas 2, linear, divaricate, equal to or 
‘longer than the style, pubescent at their points. : 
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a The lower part of the corolla dissected, so as to show the insertion of 
the stamens. 6 The pistil. 
