slightly curved, furnished a little above the base with two 
small bractes each guarding the small rudiment of an 
abortive flower. Calyx inferior, cylindrical at the under 
part, rotately campanulate at the upper, greenish, some- 
what downy, about 3 lines deep, villous at the margin, and 
toothed with five small wideset villous dagger-points. 
Corolla hypogynous, about 3 inches long, clavately elon- 
gated, cylindrically campanulate, smooth and shining on — 
the outside: tube narrow, cylindric, about an inch long, 
straight, with hairs on the inside: faux gradually enlarged 
from the tube and about half as long again as that, oblong, 
gibbous and compressedly attenuated at the back, at the 
front forming nearly a straight line with the tube, flat- 
ter and more distended, wrinkled on the inside with a 
few hairs: limb 5-parted, ringent, nearly twice shorter 
than the faux; segments nearly equal, oblong, about 
4 lines broad, bluntish with a short point, surrounded 
at the inner margin by a white tomentose narrow welt, 
downy towards the top on the inside, the two of the upper 
lip upright, slightly recurved, contiguous, and scarcely by 
half so far parted from each other as they are from their 
two immediate side-ones, rather narrower than the rest; 
the three of the lower lip more spreading, set at wider 
distances from one another, and the middle one deeper 
parted from the side-ones than any of the rest are among 
themselves. Stamens ascending, the two longer ones reach- 
ing to about the middle of the limb: filaments inserted at 
the base of the faux, the two longer ones being placed op- 
posite to the lower lip, and the two shorter ones to the 
upper, smooth, reddish, the fifth a short bristle-shaped 
antherless rudiment: anthers yellow, oblong, didymous, of 
two linear cells which are connected at the top by a very 
small receptacle, in which the filament is inserted. Germen 
green, round, papulously roughened or chagreened, at 
first scarcely thicker than the style with which it is con- 
tinuous, twice as high as the calyx, resting upon a green 
basement of a hardish fleshy substance, of the same form 
as the lower portion of the calyx in which it is concealed: 
style equal to the stamens, white, filiform: stigma of two 
membranous thin elliptic whitish laminze with a short point, 
and placed opposite to each other broadways. 
We have seen plants of this species, derived from the 
present stock, both at Messrs. Whitley, Brames, and 
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