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Perennial ? herbaceous ? wprigbt, villously furred^ 

 branches round. Leaves opposite, oblongly ovate, crenate, 

 wrinkled, whitely tomentose underneath: petiole several 

 ti[nes shorter than the blade. Peduncles 2-4, axillary, con- 

 gregated, filiform, flexile, longer than the flowers. Cal. 

 4 times shorter than the corolla; segments angularly ovate, 

 stellately spreading, one rather larger than the rest. Corolla 

 scarlet, Villous, clavately cylindrical, slightly curved, rather 

 more than an inch long, nearly of the diameter of a smallish 

 pen, shallowly and subdidymously protuberant at the back 

 of the base: limb many times shorter than the tube, obso- 

 letely bilabiate, segments equal, rounded, two lower lateral 

 ones approaching each other so as to lap over. Stamens 

 equal to the corolla; we perceived no signs of the rudiment 

 of a fifth: Jitaments white, smooth: anthers connected nearly 

 in a square, 4-ceUed, cells seated upon a fleshy papulous 

 l^ceptacle: pollen cream-coloured. Germen conical, vil- 

 lous, narrow, rather shorter than the segments of the calyx: 

 style filiform, continuous, slightly villous, piped: stigma 

 open, simple. Glands 4, inserted at the junction of the , 

 calyx with the germen, 3 white small dentiform equidistant, 

 1 yellow superior larger doubly dentiform. 



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