ovately elliptical, serrately crenate, decrescent, cordate 

 at the base, more thickly tomentose underneath, larger ones 

 about five inches in length, and about three in breadth : 

 petiole thick, short. Panicle terminal, numerous, nearly 

 opposite, spreading, distant: peduncles corymbosely many- 

 flowered, shorter than the pedicles, subtended by small 

 leaves gradually diminished into mere bractes at the upper 

 peduncles: pedicles one-flowered, with a small subulate 

 herbaceous biacte at their base. Leaflets of the calyx short, 

 subulate, herbaceous, scarcely so long as the roundish furred 

 inferior portion of the germen, of the outer covering of which 

 they are a continuation. Corolla scarlet, pubescent, cla- 

 vately tubular, nearly of the diameter of the stem of a swan- 

 quill, shallowly protubei'ant at the base; lijis of the limb 

 very unequal, upper one very large, outstretched, one- 

 coloured, sides deflectent ; lower one slanted, very short, re- 

 volute, max'ked with a purple stain having awhile border on 

 the inside. Filaments furred, red. Anthers cruciately con- 

 joined. Style scarlet, persistent, slightly protruded, furred. 



