thick, short, nearly round, involutely channelled, subarti- 
culately fixed to a projecting ring of the same colour as the 
bark and deriving from thence the appearance of stemclasp- 
ing. Panicle partly leafy, partly foliaceously bracteate, 
with the flowers in opposite pairs: peduncles thick, very 
short or nearly obsolete, generally two-flowered, axillary 
in the leaves, which gradually decrease to mere bractes; 
pedicles longish, one-flowered, stiff, ascending round, ro- 
bust. Calyx semisuperior, herbaceous, twice or thrice 
shorter than the corolla, furred; leaflets lanceolate acumi- 
nate equal. Corolla green, black-dotted, about 13 inch 
long or more, subbilabiately-funnelform, with a closely 
villous nap on the outside: fube cylindric, about the length 
of the faux, protuberant round the base; faux campanulate, 
inflated underneath; limb slanting, short, revolute, nearly 
equal, segments almost round. _ Filaments smooth, the ru- 
diment of the fifth scariose membranous subulate very short: 
anthers cruciately coadunate (united into the form of a 
cross): pollen cream-coloured. Germen oblong, pyramidal, 
rostrate (beaked), bluntly 3-cornered, scored, velvetly fur- 
red, thickly rostrate and green above, pale below, sur- 
rounded at the base by a shallow glandular yellowish 5- 
toothed crown, the teeth ovate equal obtuse separated at the 
base by 5 brownish caruncles or calli. When the flowers 
are open we perceive a limpid drop standing at the back just 
below the point of each tooth, and issuing from a fine pore- 
like perforation in the same place. Style continuous with 
the beak of the germen. 
We have observed fine plants of this species in the hot- 
house at the nursery of Messrs. Colville, in the King’s Road; 
but which have not yet flowered. — 
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